Having seen Julia proposed as the nemesis of R (not python, that too political, non-lispy)
>the creator of the R programming language, Ross Ihaka, who provided benchmarks demonstrating that Lisp’s optional type declaration and machine-code compiler allow for code that is 380 times faster than R and 150 times faster than Python
(Would especially love an overview of the controversies in graphics/rendering)
Having seen Julia proposed as the nemesis of R (not python, that too political, non-lispy)
>the creator of the R programming language, Ross Ihaka, who provided benchmarks demonstrating that Lisp’s optional type declaration and machine-code compiler allow for code that is 380 times faster than R and 150 times faster than Python
(Would especially love an overview of the controversies in graphics/rendering)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42785785