On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 4:04 AM, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 9:41 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 3:19 AM, Michael Selik <m...@selik.org> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 5:31 PM James Lu <jam...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> It would be nice if there was a DSL for describing neural networks >>>> (Keras). >>>> >>>> model.add(Dense(units=64, activation='relu', input_dim=100)) >>>> model.add(Dense(units=10, activation='softmax')) >>>> >>>> >>> Why not JSON or XML for cross-language compatibility? >>> >> >> Presumably because those are even harder to read and write for humans. >> > > Guido is absolutely right (as usual) that JSON or XML would be *vastly* > harder to read than that very clean Python code. > > That said, if you wanted a "DSL", the perfect choice would be YAML. > Hm. YAML is indeed a great, readable alternative to JSON or XML. But the term DSL implies (to me) more than just nested key-value pairs. (Though who knows maybe that's all Keras needs, and then it's a poor argument for having a DSL.) Then again maybe I'm confusing DSL (which appears to be a Rubyism) with "little language": http://wiki.c2.com/?LittleLanguage -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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