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Re:Ruby 2.6 by xiphias2 on Monday December 24, 2018 @09:55AM (#18752377)
It looks fun, but as I'm doing financial modelling right now, Julia may be a better fit for me, as it has very nice libraries as well.
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Re:Ruby 2.6 by amalawi on Monday December 24, 2018 @11:21AM (#18752786)
You may want to check APL family as a possible option for prototyping at least.
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Re:Ruby 2.6 by xiphias2 on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @09:57AM (#18757625)
APL itself looks really really bad language with bad documentation, no real libraries, non-existent type system, bad function names, and I don't see any GPU programming support in it. In the family Matlab is still the best (It can do Monte Carlo simulation on the GPU, and has a great library for different distributions), but it's still much slower language than Julia generally.
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