vncolbert's comments

On: Pattern matching accepted for Python

[vncolbert]

Yes, a lot of these features are hard to integrate into Python because it has peculiar (to say the least) namespaces.

You just need to follow the mailing lists [1] and see that many core developers themselves are caught by some namespace abnormality.

It is a pity that Greenspun's 10th rule is in full effect again and we're stuck with an inferior Lisp/ML, especially in the scientific sector.

[1] Or rather the archives, since they are now de facto corporate owned. There is no free discussion any more and people are afraid to post.

[O_H_E → vncolbert]

> and we're stuck with an inferior Lisp/ML, especially in the scientific sector.

You will love Julia.

Here are some links:

https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3276490) <= This is great and surprisingly approachable.

https://opensourc.es/blog/basics-multiple-dispatch/

And when you start finding things that you miss, Julia and the community got you with excellent Metaprogramming support.

https://github.com/thautwarm/MLStyle.jl

https://github.com/MikeInnes/Lazy.jl

https://github.com/jkrumbiegel/Chain.jl

[jnxx → vncolbert]

I know really little about Python except that it was heavily adopted by Google.

However for C++, I think that corporatization is having a strong negative influence on the language, which leads to it being stuffed with poorly integrated features which nobody really overlooks any more.