On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com>wrote:
> http://julialang.org/ > It may be useful when high performance is the requirement. > > Not just performance, it is also damn good in `readable` code The subtle connection of this sample code in their page to their namesake `Julia`(sets) is super cool :) Julia sets are curves/point sets in fractal planes (planes with fractal dimensions - how cool is a 2.46 dimension - A human mind can only interpret integer dimensions, this is 1D, 2D and 3D spaces) which satisfies a limiting function. That limiting function is: function mandel(z) c = z maxiter = 80 for n = 1:maxiter if abs(z) > 2 return n-1 end z = z^2 + c end return maxiter end The readability of this code is incredible. Considering the variables `c` and `z` are complex numbers with real and imaginary coefficients. Regards, Arun -- Arun Venkataswamy "கற்றது கைமண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு" - ஔவையார் Known is a drop, Unknown is an ocean A mash up I made from NASA's APOD website... Want to see some wonders of our universe? http://apodweekly.com and a chrome app here<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mfkbdbbekhjhpheecjldjbleaifedneh> . _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
