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Learning to love dispatch-oriented programming
3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2021-03-22 · latest 2021-06-21
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I also started in Matlab + C, and didn't personally like Python very much, but wound up liking Julia after a bit of adjustment. Still a work in progress, but I've written up a few of my lessons learned in the process [1] in case they're…
comment by cbkeller · 2021-06-21 · in Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy -
There are a few tricks to getting Julia to be actually fast, and while it's not hard per se if you know them all (at least for numerical work), it's definitely not trivial. IMHO, you really have to embrace dispatch-oriented programming,…
comment by cbkeller · 2021-06-05 · in Learn R Through Examples (2020) -
I think people often underestimate (or just plain don't know about) the degree to which a multiple-dispatch-based programming language like Julia effectively implies its whole own dispatch-oriented programming paradigm, with both some…
comment by cbkeller · 2021-03-22 · in Opticsim.jl: Optical Simulation Software