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From: Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:21:51 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:14:20 +0100
Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> boring babbled:
>On 11.11.2024 11:06, Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org wrote:
>> and there are a lot of libraries. However its
>> dog slow and inefficient and I'm amazed its used as a key language for AI
>
>(and not only there; it's ubiquitous, it seems)

Yes, certainly seems to be the case now.

>> development - not traditionally a newbie coder area - when in that
>application
>> speed really is essential. Yes it generally calls libraries written in C/C++
>> but then why not just write the higher level code in C++ too?
>
>Because of its simpler syntax and less syntactical ballast compared
>to C++?

When you're dealing with something as complicated and frankly ineffable as
an AI model I doubt syntactic quirks of the programming language matter that
much in comparison. Surely you'd want the fastest implementation possible and
in this case it would be C++.