@gappy3000 Scala's a really great language, but I'm skeptical that the JVM is a good foundation for numeric computing.
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@avibryant does strong typing make interactive exploration painful? -
@hadleywickham less than you might think. The REPL is less central than in R or Python but still quite useful. -
@avibryant@hadleywickham with scala I love the type safety more and more... Actually I miss IPython functionality more than dynamic types -
@MLnick@hadleywickham I haven't tried it but there's a Scala Notebook project that's somewhat iPython-like. -
@avibryant@hadleywickham yup and it is very good - but still missing key features eg magics... Overwhelming reason for notebook is graphics -
@avibryant@hadleywickham and alas Scala backend simply has nothing to compare to matplotlib, ggplot or gadfly... Or hardly anything really
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@avibryant@seanjtaylor@johnmyleswhite@gappy3000 love Scala, but for scientific computing it just doesn't stack up to Python/R/Julia -
@avibryant@seanjtaylor@johnmyleswhite@gappy3000 however it's a great "big data" and systems language, cf Spark, Scalding etc -
@mlnick@avibryant@seanjtaylor@gappy3000 For languages for math, I'm always surprised to see no mention of Matlab in these blogs. -
@johnmyleswhite@avibryant@seanjtaylor@gappy3000 I suppose there's a bias to open source alternatives. Bloggers can't afford a license? - 1 more reply
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@avibryant@seanjtaylor@johnmyleswhite@gappy3000 I believe this is called Stockholm Syndrome and there is help. you can beat this, Avi.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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