Post 9uD40ScBmB7LuFv54C by Halbeard@linuxrocks.online
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(DIR) Post #9uCfrsq6VVF5jYo0YK by nergal@linuxrocks.online
2020-04-19T13:50:47Z
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#Tcl: is there any language more forgot (Other than CoBol that is)?There is #R. I mean, R is said to do better at statistical analysis than Python, but Python is more popular. With Microsoft backing Python, everything else will be obscured by search bombing.Then, there is #Julia. Most encounters of Julia has been its use as an interactive shell. That says much about a programming language.
(DIR) Post #9uD40ScBmB7LuFv54C by Halbeard@linuxrocks.online
2020-04-19T17:53:56Z
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@nergal I think the main case for R is that it's designed by mathematicians so the syntax fits more nicely with mathematical thinking. But other than that I'm not sureBut one killer App for statistics programming with R is Rmarkdown, which you can use as a #markdown notebook with executable R code. Other languages should be possible too but focus was on R. Integrates nicely with LaTeX and such for fast publication.
(DIR) Post #9uD63NkQWoKTaXIGtk by Katsudon@linuxrocks.online
2020-04-19T18:40:44Z
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@nergal Julia is rather fast out of the box and has a growing library of tools.I find it's big power is when used with juptyer notebooks much like python for datascience.Additionally, Julia is just nicer to use from my experience. However, I'll admit to not having memorized as much of it's syntax / functions as python.
(DIR) Post #9uDeYRmmxftFWyNo80 by nergal@linuxrocks.online
2020-04-20T01:15:30Z
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@Halbeard I observe that the Caribbean has little to no knowledge of those options. With the crisis in the USA, one could say they do not either. Microsoft has been everything. Now, Python is being pushed for everything. No surprise, since Microsoft has sunk its jaws in that too. At the moment, it is an SPSS subscription or Excel for statistics. Python is just now being
(DIR) Post #9uFHjOHiPTH7EC1AEy by Halbeard@linuxrocks.online
2020-04-20T20:09:30Z
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@nergal might be that microsoft is pushing the language but python is really the go to language for beginners and (data) scientists. you could say google is pushing it hard as well with all the tensorflow stuff. Under all these circumstances it's just a matter of time until python is the most popular language.
(DIR) Post #9uFnoNKiZXTqG2qK6y by nergal@linuxrocks.online
2020-04-21T02:08:58Z
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@Halbeard contrast the results for "pycon microsoft" and "pycon google".Google is treating it like any good programmer would: a great programming language. Microsoft is embracing it as a marketing tool! Soon, any feature implemented in python will be limited to what Microsoft supports.Powershell passes objects. Most free operating system shells pass text. Bet python will prioritize powershell influenced features later, along with case insensitivity and all that is non-unix-like?
(DIR) Post #9uFoyeIATSyLhl73ku by nergal@linuxrocks.online
2020-04-21T02:22:02Z
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@Halbeard python is just one more variant on expressing thoughts as code. Once programming for quantum goes mainstream, python will go the way of cobol. Python does not scale. It is easy, yet has too much underneath. Perl does the same (probably with less); Ruby, Julia. It is only marketing that is hyping python like this.print("Hello, world") requires too large an engine. I pity the student that has to use python for complicated operations on Windows.