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Why no love for PHP I wonder? Don't see a supported library there.
by chenster 6y ago
Why no love for PHP I wonder? Don't see a supported library there.
- mumblemumble 6y agoIf you're successfully doing data science or data engineering in PHP, you're already a god among informaticians, and don't need any extra help.
- rscho 6y agoHiya, a bit of OT: I saw your comment about type systems in data science the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25923839 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25923839). From what I understood, it seems you want a contract system, wouldn't you think? The reason I'm asking is that I'm fishing for opinions on building data science infra in Racket (and saw your deleted comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26008869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26008869 so thought you'd perhaps be interested), and Racket (and R) dataframes happen to support contracts on their columns.
- zackmorris 6y agoI notice PHP compatibility conspicuously absent from so many libraries. Which is kind of amazing to me, since I "think" in PHP and MATLAB in a declarative and data-driven way. I do everything in sync blocking functional style and mostly just pipe data around. So I've found that the runners up (like Javascript, Python and Ruby) mostly just get in the way and force me to adopt their style. They're all roughly equivalent in power and expressivity, but nothing lets me go between a spreadsheet and the shell quite as easily as PHP.