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Re:Videos from the Julia tutorial at MIT by pjmlp on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @03:01PM (#5481406)
Reading the new Dylan documentation makes me wonder how if would have turned out if Apple invested more strongly in the language.

An expressive dynamic language with repl and native code compilers. quite nice.

The one thing so far that I don't like is <> around identifiers.

Re:Videos from the Julia tutorial at MIT by cgay on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @10:44AM (#5486309)
< > is a naming convention for types (e.g., classes) only.
Re:Videos from the Julia tutorial at MIT by pjmlp on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @12:47PM (#5487200)
I know, but still makes the code ugly to my liking.