Re: Dylan vs Julia
Carl Gay <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Feb 2014 01:08:23 -0500
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Răzvan Rotaru <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On 14 February 2014 22:56, Gour <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Are you learning it? >> > > Yes. > > >> Somehow I do not have good feeling about Java - maybe because I was >> hearing too much about 'writing once, run anywhere' which was simply not >> true and today I do not run any Java app on my desktop. >> > > Out of curiosity, why do you think this was not true? > > >> >> I shortly took look at Scala, didn't like syntax, not too excited about >> JVM and there is same problem with lack of GUI (no SWING/SWT please). >> > > Same curiosity here: why do you not want SWT? I can imagine arguments > against SWING, but not SWT. > > >> >> > When I'm choosing a language/technology to invest in, my number one >> > feature to look for are macros. I consider them to be the most >> > powerful tool that you can have at your disposal >> >> Have you tried Nimrod? >> > > No, but you just made me curios. The thing with macros is that they tend > to be difficult to use if you have infix syntax. This is one of the reason > I want to have a closer look at dylan: it claims to have a better macro > system than lisp. > Not sure where this claim is made, but if it's on opendylan.org we should fix it. Dylan has a hygienic macro system and in that sense could be considered better than Common Lisp's macros. But its macros aren't as powerful as Common Lisp's, and I completely agree that infix macros are more difficult than prefix macros. > > >> >> >> > Then, the second feature is multi-core. This is new, and mandatory, >> > given the current hardware development. >> >> How is it that you are here in Dylan or you like its capabilities in >> regard? >> > > As I said, I'm learning. > > Răzvan > > _______________________________________________ > hackers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers > > _______________________________________________ hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opendylan.org/mailman/listinfo/hackers