On Friday, August 21, 2015 at 10:55:52 PM UTC-4, Erik Schnetter wrote:
So Robert Griesemer's points (features important for a new language to be
successful) are:
1. clear target
2. solid implementation: language, libraries, and tools
3. market readiness
4. technological breakthrough
5.
be interested to hear what people think.
Cheers,
David
From: julia-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:julia-users@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Erik Schnetter
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Subject: Re: [julia-users] What makes a programming language
So Robert Griesemer's points (features important for a new language to be
successful) are:
1. clear target
2. solid implementation: language, libraries, and tools
3. market readiness
4. technological breakthrough
5. language features without competitors
I think Julia has all of 1 to 4.
If I
I just watched Robert Griesemer's GopherCon 2015 talk The Evolution of Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ReKdcpNyQg, and although I believe the
whole talk will be quite interesting to many in this list, I wondered
particularly if people here would agree with his assessment of What makes
a
