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Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming by 0x8BADF00D on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:21PM (#22824887)
`let` is not a terribly hard to understand keyword. Especially if you've had exposure to functional programming. Most academics I knew actually started out programming the functional way, rather than OO. So I'm not sure if I agree 100% with what your saying.
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Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming by marblar on Thursday April 09, 2020 @05:22PM (#22827346)
It's not terribly difficult to understand `let` if you have a background in math, given that nearly every formal proof defines variables with `let x:=`
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Re:Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming by SaxonRobber on Thursday April 09, 2020 @05:10PM (#22827244)
I think only academics with a background in CS will typically be familiar with functional programming.

For everyone else, they will have used something simpler like Excel, C, R, Python.

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