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What was your first programming language? What is/are your most used? (yiffit.net)

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My first was Matlab. Most used is probably python, and then you get into my professional niche, VHDL, C, TCL.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Gosh I couldn’t get used to that in Julia. Threw everything off that semester.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't know about Julia, but your probably writing matlab "wrong" if you're using indexes. (I've never used matlab correctly, but its not really my field). Its always confusing though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Julia embraces it. It’s intended to be used as a general-purpose scripting language focused on data/numerical analysis with parallel computing baked in. So indexing is a core part of its syntax. And since it caters to mathematicians, they began with indexing to start from 1 for familiarity. (Eventually they added support to define if your code has indexing starting from 0 or 1.)

R for my stats class really threw me off. Syntax was kinda comparable to Python but the way in which you can assign data to an object (which I think was both possible via index or dot-operator) meant I had to “forget” some things to not be lost when reading a TA’s example.

In summary, I’ll stick with Python/C/C++/Rust and leave Matlab/R/Julia to the mathematicians.