On Sun, 11 May 2014 01:17:55 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote: > On 5/10/14 8:42 AM, Roy Smith wrote: >> Ars Technica article a couple of days ago, about Fortran, and what is >> likely to replace it: >> >> http://tinyurl.com/mr54p96 >> >> > uhm, yeeah! > > 'Julia' is going to give everyone a not so small run for competition; > justifiably so, not just against FORTRAN.
That and two hundred other languages. Good languages (for some definition of "good") are a dime a dozen. Miranda, Rust, Go, D, Ceylon, Coffeescript, F#, Scala, Lua, Erlang, Eiffel, Ocaml, Haskell, Kotlin, Grovy, Clojure, Dart, Mercury, ML... the list of "amazing", "astounding" languages is never ending. Very few of them take over the world, and those that do rarely do so due to technical excellence. (BASIC, Java, PHP, Javascript ...) Some of them, like Haskell, influence other languages without ever being popular themselves. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
