Thanks, now my head is going to explode :)
Maybe one day it'll be like Star Trek where we get to tell the computer
to create the program for us, like a designer would describe general
specs to a programmer today, then go through an evaluation and
corrections without ever seeing any actual code.
Now I'm reminded of an episode ending that always bothers me, TNG Hollow
Pursuits:
"Computer. End programming. Erase all programs filed under Reginald
Barclay."
<Barclay slowly walks toward the holodeck exit, then stops>
"Except program nine"
Hey! It's too late. You already deleted ALL the programs.
On 5/9/2020 9:47 PM, David Crayford wrote:
On 2020-05-10 11:33 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
When will it all settle down to just one programming language?? Ha - I
know, never.
Never! The new kid on the dynamic language block is Julia
https://julialang.org/.
It's a very well designed language that feels a lot like Lua. Because of
the great design it's possible to write a tracing JIT that produces code
that runs as fast as C. Parallelism is baked in too. It's becoming very
popular in the data science community and is likely to eat into Python
pretty quickly.
The reason new languages keep appearing is because the ones we have now
are not that great.
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