"I'm sorry Richard, I can't do that."
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of PINION, RICHARD W. [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 3:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020 What the world really needs is a HAL9000. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2020 3:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020 [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] 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://secure-web.cisco.com/1UUUpmgc5GVhyWUlEGQCz8OyH52cYPUvgF6A5KGRIUuXNH9q1WoW53mX9c1y1scY7hndmx0t7tN4BRFB0T0hpFaXItehEMR_mxhVJIF_SOOPpidzqOUFk47A-kj8yhfBLCqFNOGCHFXM5TuJTuUACowO2J9iH7B3ouDABi6ftDIlwnhDDSnajp0SafYHC-RZLaf9O8ToHGhG0xj6yXVnfs3VBlMXblzB9UIIO3NG17br-MlK8akobafZWw_NcWLBklCSF0rzRgn7GL_JfVtboj68on43M9iBJkofI1uZXl88OTv8D01Kxv6uYtq6m8OsX30WhwT0hSXO3roRPY3dJVMAXej2twEidn-sR0K8feE-nYChAy3roz4k19qt2P2ttroeEzR0CGYAA2P_HuQ6GagJE_9BwlDu_JoClOaMCZhZD5LgkYaY1J71QlIm59MbhJMI1vyrhrankLTmeFQGyCw/https%3A%2F%2Fjulialang.org%2F. > > 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail message from your computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
