Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Fuld Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Julia was Re: Fortran was NOT higher level than C. Was: Computer architects leaving Intel... Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 10:52:51 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <2024Aug30.161204@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2024Aug30.195831@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2024Aug31.170347@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <505954890d8461c1f4082b1beecd453c@www.novabbs.org> <20240904113123.00002098@yahoo.com> <20240905130424.00001218@yahoo.com> <20240905153103.00000008@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:52:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6022d1098aa6a1792d51505d592383c1"; logging-data="462234"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX183mZVggbja14ji+2TCI+Ilr89157Lb6lk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:CrngHvCf/PMP9Xk2jw/9PKfCtO4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2304 On 9/5/2024 7:37 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote: > > I prefer Julia for the more script-oriented stuff, it can be > quite fast. > When I first saw Julia some years ago, I was very impressed. It certainly has some nice features. But apparently it hasn't caught on as quickly as I had hoped. :-( Can you talk about why you think it isn't more popular? -- - Stephen Fuld (e-mail address disguised to prevent spam)