On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 14:39 +0000, data pulverizer via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > […] > > I can see where you are coming from, I have taken a look at > Chapel and high performance computing is their top priority. I > think they hope that it will be the next Fortran, but I think it > is very much a domain specific language. They have clearly given > plenty of thought to distributed computing, parallelization and > concurrency that could yield some very nice performance > advantages. However Python's advantage is that it is a dynamic > language and can act as a front end to algorithms written in > C/C++ for instance as Google has done with TensorFlow. In the > future it could even act as a front end to Chapel since they now > have a C API.
Why write algorithms in C or C++ when you can do it in Chapel? The point here is that Python folk should look to languages like Chapel and not C, C++, or even D when they reach the limits of Python performance. And yes I am trying to get PyChapel to run on Python 3 as well as Python 2. > However, I feel as if computer programming languages are still in > this static-dynamic partnership, e.g. Python with C/C++, R and > Fortran/C/C++. It means language overhead always maintaining code > in more than one language and always having to amend your > interface every time you change something in one or the other. In > essence, nothing fundamentally different is happening with > current new languages. I hate to sound like a broken record, but > what Sparrow proposes is a unification in such a way that all > kinds of overheads go away. Making something like that work with > the principles of Sparrow would be a revolution in computing. But how are they going to get traction? Should we be giving up on D and switching to Sparrow? Polyglots programmers tend to be better programmers. This is not opinion, there is experimental evidence for this in the psychology of programming literature. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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