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Re:Julia: A Post-Mortem by pjmlp on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:41AM (#26385069)
Some companies I did consulting for, the data scientists would rather use a mix of Excel, Tableau, VBA and VB.NET.

So neither Python not Julia.

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Re:Julia: A Post-Mortem by tharne on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:18AM (#26386613)
Excel has proved itself shockingly resilient. We all make fun of it, but man, with smaller data sets it gets the job done.

A lot of people would be horrified to see how many business critical processes depend on a bunch of hacked together excel workbooks.

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Re:Julia: A Post-Mortem by galangalalgol on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:43AM (#26385584)
I get the first 3, they are surprisingly powerful for data. But why VB.NET? Its many times alower than VBA.
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Re:Julia: A Post-Mortem by pjmlp on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:08AM (#26386514)
Since when is a compiled language with JIT/AOT toolchain slower than an interpreter?

They reach for VB.NET when there is nothing left for VBA.

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