If anybody is interested, I did find these two comments about Julia and its part in the general purpose language world:
1. http://stackoverflow.com/a/17434967/632756 2. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/julia/?cid=co18025234#comment-1229330714 On Monday, February 17, 2014 10:22:38 AM UTC-8, Dave Bettin wrote: > > Julia is promoted as a technical computing language. However, there is > this beautiful general purpose language waiting to be unleashed onto the > masses. > > Why is this aspect of the language not communicated/marketed more? > > Additionally, is there currently anyone using Julia outside of the > technical computing space? >