Re:Julia 1.0
by srean on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:50PM
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> What happens for that scientist when they have to dive into Julia’a stack to debug something weird?
The same things that happened when we had this conversation about what happens to the Fortran writing scientist when Python and Numpy came along, even at that time it wasnt the first time. I am sure it would not have been a whole lot different when a COBOL alternative had come along.
Re:Julia 1.0
by marmaduke on Thursday August 09, 2018 @03:12PM
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Not quite: the argument for Julia is that a casual user won’t drop down into C from Python for performance while in Julia it wouldn’t be necessary, thus easier.
The same things that happened when we had this conversation about what happens to the Fortran writing scientist when Python and Numpy came along, even at that time it wasnt the first time. I am sure it would not have been a whole lot different when a COBOL alternative had come along.