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A comment on PEP 465 – Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplication and matrix power. Parent comment

Re:PEP 465 – Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplica... by teddyh on Saturday March 15, 2014 @08:46PM (#7407271)
I have not witnessed this behavior, but it would be perfectly logical to dismiss R while absorbing its features – R is a domain-specific language (statistics) while Python is a general purpose programming language. A GP language will always have a larger useful scope than a DSL.
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Re:PEP 465 – Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplica... by maxerickson on Saturday March 15, 2014 @08:56PM (#7407303)
Calling R a DSL is like insisting that Python is just a scripting language.
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Re:PEP 465 – Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplica... by teddyh on Saturday March 15, 2014 @11:44PM (#7407700)
R is “for statistical computing and graphics”¹.

1) http://www.r-project.org/

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Re:PEP 465 – Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplica... by maxerickson on Sunday March 16, 2014 @12:08AM (#7407772)
Sure, the facilities for statistics and plotting are well exposed. But all the features you need for 'general purpose' are in there too, and they aren't awkward to access (at least, relative to anything else).
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