On Sunday, 15 March 2015 17:21:18 UTC, Ivar Nesje wrote: > > That's one place off at the end of a 10 petabyte array. We're really > planning for the future. But as I think about it, we've grown 10 MB to 10 > GB arrays in 20 years, so who knows what the future will bring. > > Personally I think learning the difference between Float and Int is a > pretty basic programming skill, that is better thought at entry level, than > in a "post mortem" when something really bad happened. This distinction > also makes programs easier to read, because it forces one style of > programming.
I agree it is easy to learn, but numerical analysts are *not* computer scientists, nor should they be expected to be. There is a huge community of numerical analysts who want to absolutely minimise coding effort; for 70% of my own projects this is also true. For those, Julia would be a natural replacement for Matlab/Octave, because it gives them the tool to then go beyond their dirty first implementation. And the exception handling facilities in Julia make it so much easier to catch bugs related to this issue than would be possible in Matlab.
