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> It's a bit of a shame that they don't have more widespread use in scientific computing In truth, they have. Lisp was the first functional language (or the fi
by flavio81 8y ago
> It's a bit of a shame that they don't have more widespread use in scientific computing
In truth, they have. Lisp was the first functional language (or the first language that allowed that paradigm), and has been used a lot in scientific computing, for example doing symbolic calculus and manipulation.
- nikofeyn 8y agothat doesn't matter when very few scientists have even heard of an ml (standard ml, ocaml, f#) or a lisp/scheme (common lisp, racket), much less have an inkling to use them. their use does of course exist but by no measure is it widespread.
- ced 8y agoThat's part of what makes Julia promising, it's a numerically-focused Lisp, without the parentheses.