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Re:Data Science in Julia for Hackers by andi999 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @05:26AM (#26521817)
To me separating compiler and interpreter looks like a new two languages problem (maintaining consistency seems difficult)
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Re:Data Science in Julia for Hackers by jakobnissen on Saturday March 20, 2021 @06:38AM (#26522082)
It would be the same code running on two different backends, so there would not be a two-language problem. Just like how GCC and Clang don't give C a two-language problem.
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Re:Data Science in Julia for Hackers by andi999 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @06:46AM (#26522118)
2 language problem for the Julia developer. Also these two languages might drift apart over time
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Re:Data Science in Julia for Hackers by CyberDildonics on Saturday March 20, 2021 @09:20AM (#26523023)
They just explained to you that this idea has nothing to do with two different languages and that there are other examples of having multiple compilers for one language.
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Re:Data Science in Julia for Hackers by dTal on Saturday March 20, 2021 @11:49AM (#26523944)
It's not a problem if the language spec is well defined. Scheme distributions often do this.
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Re:Data Science in Julia for Hackers by pansa2 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @02:02PM (#26524797)
AFAIK Julia doesn’t even have a well-defined syntax (there’s no specification such as a context-free grammar, only the implementation of the parser).
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