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Re:Ask HN: Example of a 'non-scalar' programming language? by mindcrime on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @10:57AM (#13867953)
The closest thing that comes to mind would be languages that are vector centric, like R or Matlab. But R isn't exactly "conceived from the ground up to work beautifully atop modern CPU's". In fact, one of the knocks on R is that it isn't terribly performant and it's not easy to make it scale. shrug
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Re:Ask HN: Example of a 'non-scalar' programming language? by zengid on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:18PM (#13870014)
So there might be room for improving R?
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Re:Ask HN: Example of a 'non-scalar' programming language? by brandonbloom on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:05AM (#13873719)
It's not easy, but it's possible. Check out FastR: https://github.com/graalvm/fastr

Here's a good video about the language and this implementation: http://download.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community...

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