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am_Unition  ·  3448 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A programming language specializing in numeric and scientific computing.

Existing languages become entrenched into ongoing project operations and the organizations conducting them.

Making a switch and building new libraries to work with code you've ported over into a new language is a nightmare. I don't really have any incentive to stop writing in IDL.





DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3448 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Making a switch and building new libraries to work with code you've ported over into a new language is a nightmare.

Why would you ever port anything into a new language if it works well?

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am_Unition  ·  3448 days ago  ·  link  ·  

'cuz colleagues be like "yo, do u python?", and I'm a "yes man"