Re: [julia-users] Does Julia really solve the two-language problem?

2015-10-19 Thread Stefan Karpinski
On Monday, October 19, 2015, Tamas Papp wrote: > > The "two language problem" is really about a discontinuity in the effort > vs speed curve. You hit the limits of Language A, you have to go to > Language B, which is significantly different. In Julia you can make a > lot of incremental optimizatio

Re: [julia-users] Does Julia really solve the two-language problem?

2015-10-18 Thread Christof Stocker
I agree with you in that most of the code I start out with usually contains some dirty hacks that I later refactor. But that is just my personal approach to programming -> get something running quickly and iterate on it That being said, based on my personal experience with Julia (which is abo

[julia-users] Does Julia really solve the two-language problem?

2015-10-18 Thread Sisyphuss
The two-language problem refers to prototyping with one slow dynamic language and rewrite it with a fast static language for the final product. If Julia really solves the two-language problem, it should meet the following criteria: Let A be the code written during prototyping, B be the code writ