Much praise!! These guys have incredibly good taste. Almost every single thing I can think of that I want in a programming language, they have it. All in the one language!
The fact that it has parametric types, parametric polymorphism, macros, performance almost as good as C, good C/Fortran interop, 64 bit integers and an interactive REPL all in the one language just blows my mind.
I wasn't able to tell if it is possible to overload operators, which is another thing essential to mathematical code.
I was also unsure why the keyword end was needed at the end of code blocks. It seems that indentation could take care of that.
I also didn't see bignums as a default type (though you can use an external library to get them).
However, all in all, I think this is the first 21st Century language and find it very exciting!
The fact that it has parametric types, parametric polymorphism, macros, performance almost as good as C, good C/Fortran interop, 64 bit integers and an interactive REPL all in the one language just blows my mind.
I wasn't able to tell if it is possible to overload operators, which is another thing essential to mathematical code.
I was also unsure why the keyword end was needed at the end of code blocks. It seems that indentation could take care of that.
I also didn't see bignums as a default type (though you can use an external library to get them).
However, all in all, I think this is the first 21st Century language and find it very exciting!