Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
I'm excited about Julia because it's basically what I'd *like* to program in. My current mode of development for much stuff is Jinja2 or Tempita used for generating C code; Julia would be a real step forward.
It looks interesting, but I have a few reservations about it as it stands: * No modules, just one big global namespace. This makes it unsuitable for large projects, IMO. * Multiple dispatch... I have mixed feelings about it. When methods belong to classes, the class serves as a namespace, and as we all know, namespaces are a honking great idea. Putting methods outside of classes throws away one kind of namespace. * One-based indexing? Yuck. I suppose it's what Fortran and Matlab users are familiar with, but it's not the best technical decision, IMO. On the plus side, it does seem to have a very nice and unobtrusive type system.
the next natural step is to implement Python in Julia, with CPython C-API compatability. Which would be great.
That would indeed be an interesting thing to explore. -- Greg _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
