On Sunday, May 11, 2014 11:47:55 AM UTC+5:30, Mark H. Harris wrote: > 'Julia' is going to give everyone a not so small run for competition; > justifiably so, not just against FORTRAN. > > > Julia is Matlab and R, Python, Lisp, Scheme; all rolled together on > steroids. Its amazing as a dynamic language, and its fast, like > lightning fast as well as multiprocessing (parallel processing) at its > core. Its astounding, really.
I think the big thing is that Julia is cooperating rather than competing https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl If they can carry this off, its a definite winning strategy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list