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  • Bad IEEE and bad Code Ocean

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Niocl=C3=A1is=C3=ADn_C=C3=B3il=C3=ADn_de_Ghlost=C3=A9ir?=@Master_Fontaine_is_dishonest@Strand_in_London.Gov.UK to comp.lang.ada on Mon Jan 27 01:59:30 2025
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    Dear persons who are not complete idiots:

    Do you remember the ACM forbidding Ada at coding contests?

    HTTPS://IEEEXplore.IEEE.org/Xplorehelp/faqs/code-ocean#what-programming-languages-are-currently-supported
    and HTTPS://help.CodeOcean.com/en/articles/1120266-which-programming-languages-does-the-platform-support
    forbid Ada so they allow many worse-than-useless languages. E.g. MATLAB. MATLAB is not strongly typed so pretending that a 1d array is 2d but
    making a single character typo (e.g. fft() instead of fft2()) messes up.

    E.g. R. ``R crashes'' says HTTPS://CRAN.R-Project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Lexical-scoping

    ``missing or incorrect code in R'' says HTTPS://CRAN.R-Project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Others

    ``errors later in the code'' says HTTPS://CRAN.R-Project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-do-my-matrices-lose-dimensions_003f

    ``About 148,000,000 results'' says
    HTTPS://RSeek.org
    about "crash". ``I find that my R session crashes very often, at random
    times for random reasons'' says HTTPS://StackOverFlow.com/questions/35318760/how-to-recover-rstudio-session-after-crash
    for example. ``Session is abruptly aborted as soon as a data.frame is
    defined with no error code being printed, except of course; "R
    encountered a fatal error. The session was terminated".'' says HTTPS://community.RStudio.com/t/rstudio-crashes-when-defining-data-frame-in-version-2023-09-1-or-newer/179120
    for example.
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.lang.ada on Mon Jan 27 05:48:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.ada

    On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:59:30 +0100, Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir wrote:

    MATLAB is not strongly typed so pretending that a 1d array is 2d but
    making a single character typo (e.g. fft() instead of fft2()) messes up.

    Python+Jupyter+NumPy/SciPy+Pandas+Matplotlib is a more productive toolkit
    for that kind of stuff anyway.
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