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Re:Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir by StefanKarpinski on Thursday August 08, 2013 @01:04AM (#6177415)
Shh! Don't tell anyone but all computing is numerical computing.
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Re:Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir by tel on Saturday August 10, 2013 @10:38PM (#6193603)
I... disagree. Strongly? In fact almost feel the opposite, that "numerical work" is a subset of computing.

What would you call a lambda calculus reducer numerically?

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Re:Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir by zeckalpha on Monday August 12, 2013 @05:14PM (#6202019)
A De Bruijn reducer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index
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Re:Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir by tel on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @05:46PM (#6214519)
Sure, but that's hardly numerical. It's algebraic.
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