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Wish advocates of all new languages stuck with this principle.

• lenticular 8y ago
  I wasn't being disrespectful of Python. We are allowed to criticize languages. The fact is, by any reasonable measure, Julia is more expressive than Python, which was all I stated. This is an advantage of Julia. Both languages have advantages and disadvantages, and comparing them honestly is necessary for people to make a good choice when selecting a language for a project. C is less expressive than Python or Julia, but no one would say C is a bad language based on that. And no C programmer would disagree with that statement. It's not about putting any language or community down. By your argument, it sounds like we cannot talk about any advantages a new language may have over existing ones. If we stuck to that, how could we possibly make any argument over why one may want to select a newer language?
  • xiaodai 8y ago
    Can you give concrete examples of where Julia is more expressive than Python? I can think of defining custom units https://medium.com/@Jernfrost/defining-custom-units-in-julia-and-python-513c34a4c971 https://medium.com/@Jernfrost/defining-custom-units-in-julia...
    • lenticular 8y ago
      I give examples of expressivity in my comment above. The multiple dispatch is completely ubiquitous in Julia, being the default. This allows for the definition of flexible and extensible interfaces similar to Haskell's typeclasses. Macros are used to make things like PyCall or generate fast and flexible CUDA code. This is not easily possible in Python, especially not with high performance.