On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Patrick Burns <pbu...@pburns.seanet.com> wrote: > I'd like to hear answers to this as well. > A language doesn't have to be a complete > replacement to be useful.
Totally agree. > F# seems to have some nice features. My intention isn't to have this explode into a language war, so apologies in advance for any collateral damage but Scala is similar in flavor to F# and runs on the JVM, which gives it bonus points in my mind since the JVM is open source and runs on pretty much all major platforms. Also Scala recently added some support for increased speed over primitive arrays (in the upcoming v2.8) via the @specialized annotation: http://twitter.com/alexcruise/status/1879654400 (has a link through to PDF) Also, the scalala library is likely something people around these parts would be interested in: http://code.google.com/p/scalala/wiki/QuickStart (it's currently going through a reboot to better fit w/ scala 2.8) There are other (similar) packages in pure java that can drop down to using native blas/lapack libraries installed in the system (like MTJ: http://code.google.com/p/matrix-toolkits-java/) and one could imagine wrapping them in more idiomatic scala to make them more friendly/succinct. Lastly, if people are looking for another rabbit hole to explore, you could check out Incanter (written in Clojure) for reasons that should become immediately obvious after visiting its site: http://incanter.org/ Sorry for the diversion. Couldn't resist :-) -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
