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Re:Language War - Scala versus Python by Flow on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @11:25AM (#5251321)
Did you guys consider Google Go? I really like the language and its environment after coding in it for a bit.
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Re:Language War - Scala versus Python by shared4you on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @11:30AM (#5251346)
I think the reason was the math libraries. There aren't mature libraries yet for numerical computing. Python has Numpy/Scipy, but am not sure of Scala (I don't use).
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