I'm sorry, I wanted to correct them myself. Not expecting anyone (else) to since I started this.. I think I know a good thing when I see one. I just though maybe I'm missing something getting those responses and wandered if my admiration of Julia was somewhat misplaced.
Maybe I should just put my blinders on, just not look at other languages more. I'm pretty convinced all the others I know are obsolete (for new code).. I just might be missing something with the newer languages. Multiple dispatch was new to me. I looked into Dylan when Newton came out but probably not enough.. Did again recently. I assume there is no good reason to learn it anymore.. -- Palli. On Friday, December 26, 2014 9:58:06 PM UTC, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > Oh, man. Suggesting a different language on a language's mailing list – > that's throwing down the gauntlet! I think I'll write a reply on the ceylon > list about some of the factual claims about Julia. > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Páll Haraldsson <pall.ha...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> I mentioned Julia as a good alternative to Ceylon language in their forum >> (for linear algebra). >> >> First of all, I assume you could call Ceylon (in theory at least, or vice >> versa, I don't know to much about Ceylon). And second, I'm not sure I agree >> with the responses I got. It seems they (or I?) misunderstand Julia. Am I >> wrong to think that Julia has all the important properties of "static >> languages" and should really be considered as such? I'm still not sure >> about (e.g.) this part "Julia does not have inheritance, so I could not >> build complex hierarchies of classes". It seems to me Julia has type >> hierarchies and I've not looked enough into multiple dispatch vs. >> "conventional OO" to see if it has any big downsides. On its own or >> interfacing with other OO languages, say C++. I do not care about every >> conceivable OO feature such as C++'s multiple inheritance, just that you >> have good abstraction capabilities (and can call other OO code in other >> languages). >> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ceylon-users/Qs9m1SgdThI >> >> It seems to be that the module system is excellent (no worse than other >> languages I know) and the exception handling. The data hiding part I'm >> conflicted about. Are there any major trade-offs the designers regret >> (related to large-scale) or would like to change (breaking code). >> >> Best regards, >> Palli. >> >> >
