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Comparing Haskell to R with Will Kurt

Software Unscripted

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The Importance of Reusing Functions in Notebooks

In a lot of languages, like in Haskell, for example, if you want the function to return multiple types, then you need to go and change it to be an algebraic data type. And so that also makes me think of another example that you gave about some things which are maybe not best practice normally, but situationally might actually be the best choice. That's a really interesting example. I wonder if somebody was trying to design a language, trying to preserve that while also letting you seamlessly opt in.I think what you're describing is it's like, can we have everything? It's actually the team I just joined, he mentioned this is not an ad for hex, but

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