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		randomvectors on June 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Another Book on Data Science – Learn R and Python ... Not sure how that's relevant. Everything is written in something else. Python itself is written in C. The Julia github repo shows Julia 68.2%, C 16.3%, C++ 10.4%, Scheme 3.2%. R is a mix of C, C++, R and some Fortran I think...

pjmlp on June 21, 2019 [–]

It is relevant from the point of view of what a developer is able to achieve without being forced to drop down to a 2nd programming language, aka "2 language syndrome".

And how many Python libraries are just plain wrappers, not really written in Python.

I use TensorFlow from .NET ML and C++ API.

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