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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by ogogmad on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:21PM (#24732808)
Fair enough. But is this a common enough occurrence in the life of a programmer that it's worth being a religious extremist about?
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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by leephillips on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:30PM (#24732889)
No need for an inquisition. In both Fortran and Julia you can set your index origin to be whatever works best for the problem you are expressing.
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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by remram on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:22PM (#24734029)
It's in a list of annoyances, together with 16 others. I don't think anyone is being "a religious extremist about" it...
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