Re: [Scikit-learn-general] [Off-topic] julia

2012-04-04 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Satrajit Ghosh wrote: > http://julialang.org/ This recent post by John Cook seems relevant: "Math languages vs. application languages" http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/04/02/why-scipy/ Alejandro.

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] [Off-topic] julia

2012-04-04 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
yeap -- another example of such a "ideologically nice" new language is (was) Fortress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_%28programming_language%29 which I was told in 2005 would rule the scientific world in a few years ;-) On Wed, 04 Apr 2012, Mathieu Blondel wrote: >Creating a new langua

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] [Off-topic] julia

2012-04-04 Thread Olivier Grisel
Le 4 avril 2012 07:31, Mathieu Blondel a écrit : > Creating a new language has its advantages (e.g., tailor the language to > scientific computing) but the main disadvantage is that they need to > recreate a complete ecosystem (plotting, interactive shell, ...). I wonder > if we could get most of

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] [Off-topic] julia

2012-04-03 Thread Mathieu Blondel
Creating a new language has its advantages (e.g., tailor the language to scientific computing) but the main disadvantage is that they need to recreate a complete ecosystem (plotting, interactive shell, ...). I wonder if we could get most of the advantages of julia in Python with Numba ( https://git

[Scikit-learn-general] [Off-topic] julia

2012-04-03 Thread Satrajit Ghosh
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