Re:Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology
by schiffern on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:04PM
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Awesome! I admit I'm a bit confused though: Frink doesn't force you to use units (you could ignore them if you wanted, and even skip loading the built-in units on startup), so I'm not sure where the advantage is.
Were you thinking of a specific feature set in Julia that's lacking in Frink? Thanks.
Re:Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology
by samatman on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:22PM
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What I meant is that Julia is a general purpose programming language, and Frink is a comprehensive and thorough calculation DSL.
You could use Frink for things that aren't its focus, of course. But few would want to.
Julia has the advantage that you can do things with it that aren't unitful calculations, a classic 80% solution. Frink has the advantage that, well... it's Frink. Really nothing else like it.