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Scientists don't want to have to change the way they think to solve every single problem. We want to code something yesterday that solves today's problem and m
by JupiterMoon 11y ago
Scientists don't want to have to change the way they think to solve every single problem. We want to code something yesterday that solves today's problem and move on. A language that allows us to use simple idioms will be awesome.
- epistasis 11y agoGiven the popularity of R, I would argue that scientists prefer those idioms to the more staid serial and imperative methods of Julia. I think that scientists are much more likely to enjoy the lisp nature of R than the code-monkeys that get caught up because arrays start with 1 instead of 0.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoNo physical and life scientists do not in the general case care about how "lisp nature" or "serial and imperative methods". We use R because there is a package in CRAN for the calculations we want to do -- and because our colleague/boss does. Often we will use loops because the mental effort of coding a vector solution can be higher
- srean 11y ago> scientists are much more likely to enjoy the lisp nature of R That confused me a great deal. Julia seems more lispy than R. From the comment section it seems that you have perhaps implicitly decided apriori that R is better. So you would rationalize out of evidence and examples of situations to the contrary.