carljv

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   by carljv 11y ago

   This is an interesting project, and it's illuminating to see what it takes to emulate some R features in Python (custom infix ops, non-standard evaluation, dataframes as namespaces/envrionments, etc.) But I feel like it would be b
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   by carljv 11y ago

   Please stop this. It's approaching spam. Someone put a lot of work into building a new capability into a language and writing up a lengthy blog post about it. If you want to do the same for what you think is good about Nim and submit i
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   by carljv 12y ago

   You don't get to be a good writer via ad hominem attacks either. Having had several interactions with the author, I'd say he has a knack for putting forth controversial theses like the one in the article. I've disagreed with
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   by carljv 13y ago

   Language nerds (or geeks), definitely! Maybe he meant something like "language dweebs" or "language snobs." Julia's great strength, I think, is that it was designed by folks with very good grounding in language desi
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   A Geneva Convention for the Scientific Language Wars(slendermeans.org)

   1 points by carljv 13y ago|0 comments
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   by carljv 13y ago

   Do they really need to develop a new environment? The IPython notebook environment can be adapted to different underlying language kernels--I think they've gotten the notebook at least partially working for Ruby and Julia. Why develop