Re:Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)
by snicker7 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:03AM
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> I'd love to see a language where manipulating the language is the core strength,
This is the appeal of Julia, where the community uses macros to do things like auto-differentiation (which itself feeds into modeling engines), create domain-specific languages, and to customize compiler behavior (auto-vectorization, target GPU compute shaders).
This is the appeal of Julia, where the community uses macros to do things like auto-differentiation (which itself feeds into modeling engines), create domain-specific languages, and to customize compiler behavior (auto-vectorization, target GPU compute shaders).