Re: [julia-users] Dan Luu's critique of Julia: needs commented code, better testing, error handling, and bugs fixed.

2014-12-30 Thread Jeff Lunt
Thanks, Tim! On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Tim Holy wrote: > For anyone who wants to help with the test coverage issue, I just posted > some > instructions here: > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9493 > > --Tim > > On Monday, December 29, 2014 06:55:37 PM Ravi Mohan wrote: > > Fwiw

Re: [julia-users] Dan Luu's critique of Julia: needs commented code, better testing, error handling, and bugs fixed.

2014-12-29 Thread Jeff Lunt
To be fair, that's really an argument in Dan's favor, unless Dan is not a researcher, in which case you might be able to say that Julia is better for you because you're a researcher and Dan is not. But that would imply a domain mismatch. To say that one likes and understands a language, warts and

Re: [julia-users] Dan Luu's critique of Julia: needs commented code, better testing, error handling, and bugs fixed.

2014-12-29 Thread Jeff Lunt
Completely agree on the exception handling philosophy (as Stefen has put it). Not only should you not rely on exception handling to make your API reliable, for some reason encouraging exception handling has a way of making folks think very defensively: "Oh, so I should handle every possible scenari