@gappy3000 Scala's a really great language, but I'm skeptical that the JVM is a good foundation for numeric computing.
@hadleywickham less than you might think. The REPL is less central than in R or Python but still quite useful.
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@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@hadleywickham the repl is good and central in Haskell but usually for type exploration rather than exploratory data analysis -
@tavisrudd@avibryant to me, seems like R and scala can and should play different roles in the data sci ecosystem -
@hadleywickham@avibryant fixation on finding one perfect language is generally a waste of time. unix many tools philosophy ...
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