Try Clojure in your browser

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Post by llambda » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 12:42 PM UTC

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Post by kghose » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 1:09 PM UTC

I found it fun to see division results returned as fractions. Has anyone here switched from Python to Clojure for data analysis? What has been their experience?

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Post by gus_massa » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 1:33 PM UTC

To get help, you can type tutorial. I think it would be better to type (tutorial), or at least have both options available.

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Post by eldina » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 2:49 PM UTC

Linux + Opera here: After one has inputted a fifth line, the window will scroll to the top whenever one presses a key to type a statement.

I appreciate the effort by people creating repls for various languages. It was a similar repl for Haskell that was my entry point into Haskell and the wonderful world of functional programming.

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Post by spacemanaki » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 3:03 PM UTC

kghose wrote: post #2

I found it fun to see division results returned as fractions. Has anyone here switched from Python to Clojure for data analysis? What has been their experience?

I haven't used it, but Incanter is a Clojure statistics and data analysis thing... http://incanter.org/

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 3:06 PM UTC

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Post by tomjen3 » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 3:17 PM UTC

kghose wrote: post #2

I found it fun to see division results returned as fractions. Has anyone here switched from Python to Clojure for data analysis? What has been their experience?

That is because Lisp has fractions as a native datatype. You would get the same result in Common Lisp.

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Post by gukjoon » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 3:46 PM UTC

kghose wrote: post #2

I found it fun to see division results returned as fractions. Has anyone here switched from Python to Clojure for data analysis? What has been their experience?

Not recommended. Matrix multiplication is really slow, even with Incanter. I doubt you'll get very far with data analysis without multiplying a few matrices so avoid.

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Post by nyellin » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 3:51 PM UTC

Awesome, but please highlight matching parenthesis.

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Post by alpb » Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 4:00 PM UTC

I have always been frustrated by tutorial REPLs that make me copy and paste example codes. I simply don't write them manually to CLI and I believe many people do so. Therefore maybe a link to directly paste and execute code on tutorial steps would be quite useful. Like "run this".