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And how do you multiple dispatch on that? But if you just want a free MATLAB, use Octave.

• enriquto 6y ago
  yep, Octave is what I currently use when I can choose. I loved the concept of Julia as an "octave with fast loops". But it seems that there are some compromises with the Julia interpreter that go against my intersts. Maybe thee's still space for a modern language for numerical computation whose efficiency is not encumbered by the need to support strings, dictionaries, multiple dispatch and the like?
  • shakow 6y ago
    > Maybe thee's still space for a modern language for numerical computation whose efficiency is not encumbered by the need to support strings, dictionaries, multiple dispatch and the like? I don't think so: I don't know of any scientific code that doesn't have to interact with its environment, if only to import/export data, and for that, strings at the very least are necessary. Multiple dispatch is the same thing for me; either it or another form of polymorphism will be very quickly asked for by the users of a scientific language, as no one wants to write dozens of time the same functions for different types, and the HPC community loves its programs to go fast, so they need/want to be able to chose their types.