It's really interesting to see that Julia has no null, even though it's dynamically typed. I've not seen that combination before.
miniblog.
That said, I wish Julia had a condition system and the ability to redefine functions in a package (SLIME spoils you for anything else).
An extraordinary git commit message:
I'm also impressed that some of the Symbolics team are hacking on Julia.
The more I look at Julia, the more impressed I am with the language. Fast and expressive. Still a little tricky to Google though.
Trifle lisp 0.11 is out! Hashmaps, syntactic improvements, and a smorgasbord of bug fixes!
Google now ranks my SO profile highly if you search for me. Not sure how I feel about all my misunderstandings being prominent.
"I would rather write [in $LANG]. But it is not just the tools that matter but the ideas, and you will find they come from everywhere." QFT.
"PHP initially implemented its loops by fseek() in the source code." Egads! http://t.co/Vrxk0YPOVR
"good register allocation can improve the performance of several SPEC benchmarks by an order of magnitude" http://t.co/1GsacmLmFu
"Any PHP value in your program uses 68 bytes of overhead [on 32-bit platforms]." Cripes!
Being both recursive and iterative: http://t.co/CqBf23iTpu
I dropped in to @papertrailapp 's chat room, but no-one was around to answer my question. Got a follow-up email later from them. Impressed.
Python list comprehensions are rarely readable when nested. [y for x in [[1, 2], [3, 4]] if x for y in x if y]
I quite like hungry-delete, but most of the time I end up using a mode-specific electric unindent. It's more DWIM. #emacs
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