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Published inJan 2016
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Pascal Bugnion
Pascal Bugnion
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Pascal Bugnion is a data engineer at the ASI, a consultancy offering bespoke data science services. Previously, he was the head of data engineering at SCL Elections. He holds a PhD in computational physics from Cambridge University. Besides Scala, Pascal is a keen Python developer. He has contributed to NumPy, matplotlib and IPython. He also maintains scikit-monaco, an open source library for Monte Carlo integration. He currently lives in London, UK.
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Pattern matching is a powerful tool for control flow. It encourages the programmer to think declaratively: declare that you expect a variable to match a certain pattern, rather than explicitly tell the computer how to check that it matches this pattern. This can save many lines of code and enhance clarity.

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Pascal Bugnion

Pascal Bugnion is a data engineer at the ASI, a consultancy offering bespoke data science services. Previously, he was the head of data engineering at SCL Elections. He holds a PhD in computational physics from Cambridge University. Besides Scala, Pascal is a keen Python developer. He has contributed to NumPy, matplotlib and IPython. He also maintains scikit-monaco, an open source library for Monte Carlo integration. He currently lives in London, UK.
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