On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:54:35 AM UTC+2, Bill Hart wrote: > > Oh what a shame I missed the party. And I don't have time to read all the > wonderfully eloquent nonsense in this thread. >
So, since we both are the only remaining hangover crowd, I've one last question about Julia: > > But I think Julia is good for a few years yet. It's one of the few truly > 21st century programming languages available. > All your arguments center around technical arguments: speed, efficiently maintenance of "exponentially" growing complexities in codebases, etc. Those are without question desirable properties. What's missing for me is the other side for the actual humble user of this. Python's roots are in ABC (which does not stand for abstract base classes, but for the effort to produce a human friendly programming language as a basic successor). Does Julia have such goals? Second question is about multi-dispatch, and goes in the same direction: Given I have an object behind x, is there a x.[TAB] which lists me what I can "do" with it? Or does this playful way of discovering functionalities work differently? -- H -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
