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Re:Why I am betting on Julia (2014) by junke on Monday April 18, 2016 @06:52AM (#11518902)
Do you see a contradiction between having a good design and having a specific purpose?
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Re:Why I am betting on Julia (2014) by lmm on Monday April 18, 2016 @06:59AM (#11518930)
Yes. I think good programming language design is necessarily general, and the best way to achieve that is with a language that's been validated in widely varied domains. Certainly my experience is that specialized languages are consistently worse than general-purpose ones.
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Re:Why I am betting on Julia (2014) by junke on Monday April 18, 2016 @07:18AM (#11518994)
Julia is general-purpose, but there is a deliberate orientation towards scientific computing. That's a partly non-technical choice about what is going to be optimized in priority.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17433435/what-makes-juli...

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