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Re:Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir by sumzup on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @06:25PM (#6176102)
>Eventually, I hit a point with R where I was trivially doing pretty complicated things that would have been... ugly in Python.

I'm curious; can you give any examples?

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Re:Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir by peatmoss on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @08:57PM (#6176735)
There have been others, but this was a pretty good example of 1.) munging data easily 2.) having libraries available that did what I was looking for

https://gist.github.com/pschmied/5903410

I make no guarantees about the quality of my hackish code :-)

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