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> data science in Common Lisp or Racket

Similarly, Chibi or Gambit Scheme.

> I would sooner take Lua for data science

Which provides for a low level language like Terra or a Lisp via Fennel or Urn.

[disgruntledphd2]

Incidentally, Lua has DS history, as it was used by Yann LeCunn for torch, which was a Lua library.

There were a whole bunch of goodies in the surrounding ecosystem, as I recall.

Then Yann got acquired by FB, and it all got re-written in Python (hence pytorch, as opposed to torch which was in Lua).