> Some of these languages support abstractions which are strictly equivalent to static multi-method dispatch Yes, and even with languages that have these abstr

> Some of these languages support abstractions which are strictly equivalent to static multi-method dispatch Yes, and even with languages that have these abstractions, they aren't as pervasive as in Julia. Ex. There's a fundamental difference between typclasses and functions in haskell. In julia, there's no such distinction and code is more generic