On: Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir

[StefanKarpinski]

Shh! Don't tell anyone but all computing is numerical computing.

[tel → StefanKarpinski]

I... disagree. Strongly? In fact almost feel the opposite, that "numerical work" is a subset of computing.

What would you call a lambda calculus reducer numerically?

[zeckalpha → tel]

A De Bruijn reducer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index

[tel → zeckalpha]

Sure, but that's hardly numerical. It's algebraic.