Maybe because it seems that a lot of the major packages have been put into Base, so it isn't a problem, as MA Laforge pointed out, leading to Base being incredibly large, with stuff that means Julia's MIT license doesn't mean all that much, because it includes GPL code by default...
Scott On Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 5:03:52 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Scott Jones <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Your restrictions are making it very hard to develop easy to use APIs >> that make sense for the people using them… >> >> That’s why so many people have been bringing this issue up… >> > > Not a single person who maintains a major Julia package has complained > about this. Which doesn't mean that there can't possibly be an issue here, > but it seems to strongly suggest that this is one of those concerns that > initially appears dire, when coming from a particular programming > background, but which dissipates once one acclimatizes to the multiple > dispatch mindset – in particular the idea that "one generic function" = > "one verb concept". >
