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Re:Why Does Julia Work So Well? by cdsousa on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:41AM (#24847769)
AFAIK it is the opposite of what you have said. And although Julia has a lot of inspiration of Matlab syntax, it is absolutely not derived from it. https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/
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Re:Why Does Julia Work So Well? by StefanKarpinski on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @03:23PM (#24851104)
There are many fine languages that have used `end` to delimit blocks, including: Pascal — an elegant, classic language (and my first, personally); Ruby — another gem (get it). And yes, also Matlab, which is hardly unique in this respect.
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Re:Why Does Julia Work So Well? by IshKebab on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:49AM (#24855791)
Right, but Julia is not derived from Ruby or Pascal.
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Re:Why Does Julia Work So Well? by StefanKarpinski on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:24PM (#24859772)
Julia isn't derived from Matlab either and was influenced as much by Ruby as by Matlab.
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Re:Why Does Julia Work So Well? by IshKebab on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:48AM (#24855788)
> derive: base a concept on an extension or modification of (another concept).

Obviously I didn't mean the implementation was based on MATLAB because that would be impossible.

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