The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming language

Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by leephillips on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:30AM (#24730240)

This is an issue for me. Although I find the lisp idea beautiful, my programming usually has some relation to mathematics, to equations. In lisp, math just doesn’t look like math. Julia goes the opposite way: it's use of Unicode for identifiers and such things as allowing juxtaposition for multiplication (when not ambiguous) make math look more like math than in any other language.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by pmoriarty on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:42AM (#24730346)

I do like the the option of using unicode symbols in Julia, but this need not be thought of as only a language feature.

Emacs allows you to substitute any text for any other when viewing a document, so you can pretty much do the same in Emacs for any language.

I did this when editing LaTeX papers full of logic symbols, which Emacs would display as the symbols themselves rather than as the underlying LaTeX markup.

It could do the same for Lisp or any other language.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by leephillips on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:47AM (#24730391)

Vim can do this to (with a plugin). And you can enter Unicode in the Julia REPL by entering the TeX command and hitting TAB.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by jsrcout on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:45PM (#24736127)

> Emacs allows you to substitute any text for any other when viewing a document

Do you have a reference or search term for that? My Google-fu is failing me.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of the Julia programming l... by vats on Friday October 09, 2020 @11:29PM (#24736506)

It's called prettify-symbols-mode: http://www.modernemacs.com/post/prettify-mode/

[ Parent | on HN ]