Plenty of people are using high-level languages for 'serious' programming. I think the best example is how a lot of investment firms are using R, a language highly specialized for statistical data ...

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When Jim Keller talks about compute engines, you listen. And when Keller name drops a programming language and AI runtime environment, as he did in a recent interview with us, you do a little research ...