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In addition to the other answers you've gotten (which I agree with and are probably more important than this one) the same advantages that are normally given fo
by grayclhn 11y ago
In addition to the other answers you've gotten (which I agree with and are probably more important than this one) the same advantages that are normally given for working interactively with a REPL apply to scientific computing in economics, probably more than in most fields. (Programming efficiency becomes more important relative to computational efficiency when you're only going to run the program once.) Both Julia and Python are easier to work with interactively than C and Fortran.
- IndianAstronaut 11y ago>Both Julia and Python are easier to work with interactively than C and Fortran. Especially considering the people this is targeted at have a weak programming background.
- sp527 11y agoThere are entire companies, many worth well into the hundreds of millions, built around dynamic languages. The notion that they can't scale to enterprise-grade application quality is a vestigial exhortation of a bygone era of pedanticism, perpetuated by nerds who saw 'barriers to entry' (obtuse language design) as a way to artificially inflate their own stature. Don't drink the Kool-Aid.