On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 15:05:40 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 14:55:38 UTC, someone wrote:
Please think about the huge math and science community. Most
of them I came across like D for its speed and efficiency. But
D can never replace Matlab/Octave/Ipython/Scipy because ....
.. of the messy syntax compared to almost math like syntax
above languages offer.
For example, if I want to quickly want to plot something, in
Octave I would do:
x = linspace(0, 2*pi, 1000);
y = sin(x);
plot(x, y)
Last time I tried a similar language, basically, any variable
name that is not yet used is resolved to null. Which is why the
syntax work.
Not quite.
The paradigm in python/matlab etc. could be expressed as
"initialisation is declaration". It works ok.
IDL (interactive data language, not interface description
language) takes it to the next level by allowing undeclared
variables to be passed as output parameters to a function. Which,
combined with single return types and a strict separation of
procedures and functions, each with different calling syntax, is
horrible.
