I think the motivation for Julia was that nothing delivered both the performance and flexibility they wanted for numeric programming. C/C++ are too static and dangerous, Matlab proprietary, (not sure what they don't like about Octave), Java too verbose and lacking in numeric primitives, Common Lisp too archaic and labour intensive to optimize. Python, Ruby, Perl, R etc are too slow and so require C/C++ libraries to do all the heavy lifting, which gets awkward when the solution requires crossing the language boundary a lot.
Sure there are a lot of programming languages around these days and I share the frustration this can cause, but new languages also serve to explore the space of possibilites, after all in this realm we are just short sighted apes stumbling about. On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 06:39, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Who initiated the project, and why? > What deficiencies in existing languages are they trying to address? > > The belief that Yet Another Programming Language is the answer to the > world's problems is a persistent, but (IMNSHO) a naive one. > > On 12/8/19, Andrew Shitov <a...@shitov.ru> wrote: > > Let’s not hide the fact that Julia development raised 4.6 million dollars > > and the language is production-ready. > > > > On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 at 12:46, JJ Merelo <jjmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> It might have been, but syntax is more Python-like to the point that in > >> some cases it's exactly the same. It's got a very extensive macro > >> systems, > >> which enables it to work concurrently, for instance. It's more > >> scientific-computing oriented, which means that there are all sort of > >> mathematical modules for it, and not so many for web, databases, or > >> things > >> like that. > >> > >> El dom., 8 dic. 2019 a las 4:38, Tom Blackwood (<tom.blkw...@gmail.com > >) > >> escribió: > >> > >>> Hello > >>> > >>> How do you think of Julia language? > >>> > >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language) > >>> > >>> It says it is also influenced by perl language. > >>> > >>> Regards > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> JJ > >> > > -- > > Andrew Shitov > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > a...@shitov.ru | http://shitov.ru > > >
