Templates problem

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 14:39 +0000, data pulverizer via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:
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> I can see where you are coming from, I have taken a look at 
> Chapel and high performance computing is their top priority. I 
> think they hope that it will be the next Fortran, but I think it 
> is very much a domain specific language. They have clearly given 
> plenty of thought to distributed computing, parallelization and 
> concurrency that could yield some very nice performance 
> advantages. However Python's advantage is that it is a dynamic 
> language and can act as a front end to algorithms written in 
> C/C++ for instance as Google has done with TensorFlow. In the 
> future it could even act as a front end to Chapel since they now 
> have a C API.

Why write algorithms in C or C++ when you can do it in Chapel? The
point here is that Python folk should look to languages like Chapel and
not C, C++, or even D when they reach the limits of Python performance.

And yes I am trying to get PyChapel to run on Python 3 as well as
Python 2.

> However, I feel as if computer programming languages are still in 
> this static-dynamic partnership, e.g. Python with C/C++, R and 
> Fortran/C/C++. It means language overhead always maintaining code 
> in more than one language and always having to amend your 
> interface every time you change something in one or the other. In 
> essence, nothing fundamentally different is happening with 
> current new languages. I hate to sound like a broken record, but 
> what Sparrow proposes is a unification in such a way that all 
> kinds of overheads go away. Making something like that work with 
> the principles of Sparrow would be a revolution in computing.

But how are they going to get traction?

Should we be giving up on D and switching to Sparrow?

Polyglots programmers tend to be better programmers. This is not
opinion, there is experimental evidence for this in the psychology of
programming literature.

-- 
Russel.
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