Re:Pattern matching accepted for Python
by O_H_E on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:22PM
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> and we're stuck with an inferior Lisp/ML, especially in the scientific sector.
You will love Julia.
Here are some links:
https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/
Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3276490) <= This is great and surprisingly approachable.
https://opensourc.es/blog/basics-multiple-dispatch/
And when you start finding things that you miss, Julia and the community got you with excellent Metaprogramming support.
https://github.com/thautwarm/MLStyle.jl
I know really little about Python except that it was heavily adopted by Google.
However for C++, I think that corporatization is having a strong negative influence on the language, which leads to it being stuffed with poorly integrated features which nobody really overlooks any more.
You just need to follow the mailing lists [1] and see that many core developers themselves are caught by some namespace abnormality.
It is a pity that Greenspun's 10th rule is in full effect again and we're stuck with an inferior Lisp/ML, especially in the scientific sector.
[1] Or rather the archives, since they are now de facto corporate owned. There is no free discussion any more and people are afraid to post.