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Re:Calculus with Julia by ssivark on Saturday May 18, 2024 @11:33PM (#40404046)
> Poor support for OOP (no, pure FP is not the optimal programming approach).

Julia is not really a pure functional programming language, though it does support that style if one desires.

It's actually a "multiple dispatch" language... thinking of OOP as single dispatch, Julia is conceptually OOP on steroids -- but to benefit from the full expressiveness, the programming style looks different from the typical OOP syntax/patterns one is used to.

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Re:Calculus with Julia by waveBidder on Sunday May 19, 2024 @01:22AM (#40404458)
having spent my PhD writing in Julia, coming back to object oriented programming felt like programming with a hand tied to my back. many operations just make more sense dispatching on multiple arguments rather than just one, and. cramming methods into a class felt unnatural
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