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Julia: to Lisp or not to Lisp?
Stefan Karpinski's European Lisp Symposium 2016 talk asks whether Julia is a Lisp. He covers the features it borrows from Lisp, such as macros and closures, and where it departs, including syntax and its type system, with generated machine code shown.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as a brilliant talk on Julia's design and how it is or isn't a Lisp.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- European Lisp Symposium
- Topic
- julia language design
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 13
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Ah, the Julia talk ( [VIDEO] ) was just great. Showing the generated machine code is so hackerish yet so rare these days. :-/
Flow on Hacker News · 2016-05
In European Lisp Symposium 2016This reminded me of the recent brilliant talk about design of Julia: "Julia: to lisp or not to lisp?" [VIDEO]
e12e on Hacker News · 2016-06
In Nim Programming Language 0.14.0 releasedBest talks in my opinion: * [LINK] * [VIDEO] Notable mentions: * [LINK] * [LINK] * [LINK] I liked OpenGL lightning talk as well: * [LINK]
krzychukula on Hacker News · 2016-05
In European Lisp Symposium 2016
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