Julia can already call Python functions (and I don't mean in some theoretical, technical sense, I mean very practically via an interface designed explicitly for such). So it's not necessary to "move" Sage from Python to Julia. Other Scientific Python projects haven't done this.
There are other reasons why this is not necessary, because of other technical advances that will become available in the coming few years (they are working in labs right now). Instead, the Sage project should do two things in my opinion: 1) Make Julia part of the Sage ecosystem (it's already had a huge investment from the scientific and statistical communities, so this is a no-brainer if you want to embrace that community) 2) Invest in the technologies that are making Julia successful (jit, dependent typing, metaprogramming, type checking and inference, etc.) Whether 2 involves rewriting some functionality in Julia, or simply finding ways of adding such functionality to Python is really neither here nor there. What Sage can't do is just stagnate and ignore progress. If it does, it will be brushed aside as if it wasn't even there, as has happened over and over again in the history of computer algebra! And it's happening to Sage. A few years ago, people at conferences were excitedly demonstrating stuff in Sage. This year, they've moved back to Magma. As I have already mentioned, the technology behind Julia can in theory do generic programming even faster than C or C++. So it is a strictly superior technology to what has been available in the past. It's a genuine innovation, whether the Julia designers see it that way or not. The Julia developers are not like me. They like Python and embrace it (many of them are pythonistas). They would never go around claiming Julia is in any way superior to Python. But I am not one of them and can go around making such claims, because in the sense that I mean it, it is true. Bill. On Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:33:00 UTC+2, mmarco wrote: > > So, would it be thinkable of to move sage from Python to Julia? Sounds > like a titanic task, but sounds like if there are so many advantages in > Julia with respect to Python, it could be worth it. > -- 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.
