The accelerating adoption of Julia

Posted Oct 21, 2020 22:15 UTC (Wed) by jkowing (guest, #5172)
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> Oh yes, possibly PL/1 which was meant to be all things

Picking classes to take with no guidance, I remember (long ago) taking Programming Language 1 offered in the computer science department at my college. I was thinking - hey - this sounds like THE programming language to know - after all, it is number 1. I was feeling pretty good about myself. Then, after completing the course, I was told that will be the last time they offer it and it was removed from the curriculum. And that was the last of my PL/1 programming.

Oh well. At least my C (which doesn't sound very important at all - and certainly must not as good as fancy and powerful as B and A) still keeps going strong!

The accelerating adoption of Julia

Posted Oct 21, 2020 23:19 UTC (Wed) by leephillips (subscriber, #100450) [Link]

In graduate school (1980s, physics) one astronomer, our resident computer expert, was pushing PL/1 hard. He believed it was the perfect language and would rule the future. I was recommending APL to everyone. Of course, eventually, I wound up using Fortran for all my simulations, as did everyone else.