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Pardon the possible naïveté, but I'm so old I remember Ada. Seems that language was designed to address a very similar problem space. What does Julia offer th
by blacksqr 15y ago
Pardon the possible naïveté, but I'm so old I remember Ada. Seems that language was designed to address a very similar problem space. What does Julia offer that Ada doesn't? Or perhaps: why is ada so deficient that spending 2+ years inventing a new language was a better proposition than taking the time to improve Ada?
- SomeCallMeTim 15y agoWhile there's a resurgence of interest in ADA recently, the general sense is that it's WAY overdesigned and heavy. I came across this bit of humor a while back that communicates the general feeling well: http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/~gb/csc4101/Reading/gigo-1997-04.html http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/~gb/csc4101/Reading/gigo-1997-04.html If the problem IS that it's huge and inelegant, then the solution isn't to try to improve it, but to start from a clean slate. Julia looks like a reasonable attempt.
- blacksqr 15y agoFunny, I remember reading similar conspiracy claims about C.