On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> ractically speaking, I don't have time to become fluent in half a dozen > candidate languages. I can probably budget time for one more beyond Go > and Rust; Erlang actually seems like a strong contender there. > Would you consider Julia ? I know nothing apart from being accuaintances with its founders. It is MIT-licenced; the rest I shall quote from the Debian description: Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. The library, mostly written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, FFTs, and string processing. Julia programs are organized around defining functions, and overloading them for different combinations of argument types (which can also be user-defined). \endquote Its compiler is LLVM-based, and the website says: you can call functions in C libraries directly: http://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/calling-c-and-fortran-code/ -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane
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