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I wish the HN community would collectively decide to downvote posts like these, which reward people who use clickbaity titles to get attention at the cost of hi
by evmar 9y ago
I wish the HN community would collectively decide to downvote posts like these, which reward people who use clickbaity titles to get attention at the cost of hiding more careful analyses.
The post can be summarized as a critique of a programming language that did not meet the author's desires, but sections of the critique is (1) dislike of the syntax, (2) a specific missing feature, and (3) a very specific feature which doesn't exist in any of the popular scientific computing languages. It's fine to talk about not liking a tool, but it doesn't merit "fails hard".
- dnautics 9y ago3) very much exists in julia
- haeffin 9y agoWhy do you say (3) does not exist? C++ has it (and it's one of the main reason why, at the moment, I wouldn't use Rust to do the things I do).
- pjmlp 9y ago(3) Exists in Fortran, C# and F# [1] Looking outside popular scientific computing languages, many Algol derived languages support it. [1] .NET languages are used in scientific computing with packages like Alea GPU and IMSL.