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Re:Modern C++ Won't Save Us by jcelerier on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @03:25AM (#19726333)
> For example, since the standard library does not have a Matrix class suitable for numerical applications (or maybe it does today...) using multiple libraries each with its own Matrix class is difficult.

well, Python comes with a builtin "matrix-like" array type and yet it's not the one which is the most used in scientific computation.

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Re:Modern C++ Won't Save Us by aldanor on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @07:55AM (#19727675)
Python provides the buffer interface, however (which `array` module implements), which links Python's buffers and memoryviews to numpy arrays to multiple other 3rd-party array-like and table-like types and structures.
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Re:Modern C++ Won't Save Us by RayDonnelly on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @07:50AM (#19727642)
.. because it's (relatively speaking) brand new?
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