A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 14:51 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> 
> [1] The problem is that all these nice Python and R 
> implementations are practically useless for real world 
> applications. Too slow, too cumbersome, too many dependencies. It 
> has to be rewritten anyway. (I'd be happy, if they used at least 
> C.)

I am not sure which "real world" you are living in, but I have Python
code that executes computationally intensive codes at least as fast as
C, C++, and Fortran. R is slow in comparison. Python code is generally
easier to read and write than C, C++ and Fortran, so not cumbersome.
Dependencies depends on what you want to use in any programming
languages so all fail on that metric. No-one in 2015 should be writing
any application in C; it is too low-level a language for the current
state of programming.

In the real world as I know it people use Python for masses of stuff and
it does the job well. Statisticians use R.
-- 
Russel.
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