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		anateus on April 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Julia, Python and Cython The syntax is inspired by/based on that of MATLAB, likely so as to be as familiar as possible.

synparb on April 23, 2012 [–]

I don't think one should do something just because it is familiar syntactically. Having left MATLAB for python, there were enough compelling reasons to ditch the familiar.

fuzzythinker on April 23, 2012 | [–]

Agree. The extra "end"'s makes the code look hideous.

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