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throwawaymath on Feb 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Data Science of MathOverflow

Why does it seem more sane to have libraries instead of specialized languages?

Even with Python and R's mathematical ecosystem, they don't replicate the sheer breadth and depth of specialized tools like Mathematica and MATLAB.

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