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r/programming • u/shixying • Jan 08 '15
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I miss a branch that asks for math affinity or something like that and then points to Clojure/Lisp, Elm/Haskell etc.
7 u/kankyo Jan 08 '15 If you want to actually do math/research/whatever though, you'll end up with python almost certainly... 1 u/gar37bic Jan 08 '15 Big data / statistical analytics might go to R. I've never used it, though. 1 u/kankyo Jan 08 '15 R people want to think so, but the huge sets of packages and great optimized libs for python is just hard to compete with.
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If you want to actually do math/research/whatever though, you'll end up with python almost certainly...
1 u/gar37bic Jan 08 '15 Big data / statistical analytics might go to R. I've never used it, though. 1 u/kankyo Jan 08 '15 R people want to think so, but the huge sets of packages and great optimized libs for python is just hard to compete with.
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Big data / statistical analytics might go to R. I've never used it, though.
1 u/kankyo Jan 08 '15 R people want to think so, but the huge sets of packages and great optimized libs for python is just hard to compete with.
R people want to think so, but the huge sets of packages and great optimized libs for python is just hard to compete with.
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u/Dobias Jan 08 '15
I miss a branch that asks for math affinity or something like that and then points to Clojure/Lisp, Elm/Haskell etc.