Yeah cause Haskell is so super newbie friendly??? I don't think the developers had the goal with Julia that you should be able to write code with as few characters as possible.
On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 5:54:37 PM UTC+2, Páll Haraldsson wrote: > > On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 12:17:25 PM UTC, Marcio Sales wrote: >> >> Wow. All this discussion to make Julia only *as fast as* the old >> scripting languages? >> > > This is not what I meant. Matching C is the goal I understand and often > that goal is met. *Should* always be possible. > > A. By matching the speed C/C++ (and I guess Fortran that I'm not too > familiar with) the length of your code shouldn't be longer. It might very > well be shorter and still not slower. > > B. Some other languages (such as Haskell or scripting languages), can be > very concise. And sometimes there is not much speed penalty. It would be > ideal to also have (as) short code and not pay a price in speed. That is > the only thing I meant. > >
