Re:Julia adoption keeps climbing
by dm319 on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:36PM
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I don't understand how people can loath R. If you take a functional approach, especially using pipes, dplyr and a split, apply, combine style, it is quite beautiful. Much nicer than trying to, say, divide a time period by an integer in Go.
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> If you take a functional approach, especially using pipes, dplyr and a split, apply, combine style, it is quite beautiful
Sure, but what if you don't? Sometimes, this is the right way to do things, other times there are other approaches that are more natural/beautiful. In many cases, a loop with conditionals is much easier to understand.
I use a lot of R, and like many aspects of it. But the fact that `f(stop("Hi!"))` may or may not throw an error depending on the internals of `f` is a little maddening. (And there are tons of similar issues.)