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I'm a Math/Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo. I grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In my free time, I write code for open-source and my own projects. Away from the keyboard, I enjoy reading, sailing, running, geocaching, travel, and learning French.
You can find me on LinkedIn, twitter, and Facebook. You can also contact me the old-fashioned way at blog@paulbutler.org. Here is my résumé.
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Category Archives: Programming
Why R doesn't suck
I first encountered the R programming language a few years ago when I needed to make some plots. Although I’ve used it occasionally since, I always considered it a sort of “Perl for statisticians” — a useful swiss-army knife with … Continue reading
Posted in Data Mining, Haskell, Math, Programming, Python, R, Ruby
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Do we really need another programming language?
Yesterday, a group inside Google released a new programming language called go. Among the many comments on the new language, I noticed a number of people rhetorically asking if there is really room for more programming languages. I’ve seen the … Continue reading
Posted in Programming
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