Re:Lost in Math
by sgt101 on Sunday July 01, 2018 @01:26PM
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>That's frustrating and lazy
I think it's frustrating (for you) and cheap. For them writing in Python and not C is probably (see my previous comment for my acknowledgement of the lameness of "probably") significantly cheaper - possibly several orders of magnitude cheaper. For you 128GB RAM is pricy, but nothing like the cost of software written "the old way". You are paying for their time savings with your hardware, the alternative is to pay for their time which would be way more expensive.
You definitely have a point wrt. Systems apps; C++ is needed if you want to go close to the metal. I think that Julia is pushing it out of a lot of scientific apps though.
I think it's frustrating (for you) and cheap. For them writing in Python and not C is probably (see my previous comment for my acknowledgement of the lameness of "probably") significantly cheaper - possibly several orders of magnitude cheaper. For you 128GB RAM is pricy, but nothing like the cost of software written "the old way". You are paying for their time savings with your hardware, the alternative is to pay for their time which would be way more expensive.
You definitely have a point wrt. Systems apps; C++ is needed if you want to go close to the metal. I think that Julia is pushing it out of a lot of scientific apps though.