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Do you see a contradiction between having a good design and having a specific purpose?
by junke 11y ago
Do you see a contradiction between having a good design and having a specific purpose?
- lmm 11y agoYes. I think good programming language design is necessarily general, and the best way to achieve that is with a language that's been validated in widely varied domains. Certainly my experience is that specialized languages are consistently worse than general-purpose ones.
- junke 11y agoJulia is general-purpose, but there is a deliberate orientation towards scientific computing. That's a partly non-technical choice about what is going to be optimized in priority. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17433435/what-makes-julia-unsuitable-for-general-purpose-programming/17434967#17434967 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17433435/what-makes-juli...