Doug, Agreed on the interesting point - looks like it has some real promise. I think the spike in interest could be attributable to Mike Loukides's tweet on Feb 20. (editor at O'Reilly)
https://twitter.com/#!/mikeloukides/status/171773229407551488 That is exactly the moment I stumbled upon it. Jeff On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Douglas Bates <ba...@stat.wisc.edu> wrote: > My purpose in mentioning the Julia language (julialang.org) here is > not to start a flame war. I find it to be a very interesting > development and others who read this list may want to read about it > too. > > It is still very much early days for this language - about the same > stage as R was in 1995 or 1996 when only a few people knew about it - > but Julia holds much potential. There is a thread about "R and > statistical programming" on groups.google.com/group/julia-dev. As > always happens, there is a certain amount of grumbling of the "R IS > SOOOO SLOOOOW" flavor but there is also some good discussion regarding > features of R (well, S actually) that are central to the language. > (Disclaimer: I am one of the participants discussing the importance of > data frames and formulas in R.) > > If you want to know why Julia has attracted a lot of interest very > recently (like in the last 10 days), as a language it uses multiple > dispatch (like S4 methods) with methods being compiled on the fly > using the LLVM (http://llvm.org) infrastructure. In some ways it > achieves the Holy Grail of languages like R, Matlab, NumPy, ... in > that it combines the speed of compiled languages with the flexibility > of the high-level interpreted language. > > One of the developers, Jeff Bezanson, gave a seminar about the design > of the language at Stanford yesterday, and the video is archived at > http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/. You don't see John Chambers on > camera but I am reasonably certain that a couple of the questions and > comments came from him. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Jeffrey Ryan jeffrey.r...@lemnica.com www.lemnica.com www.esotericR.com R/Finance 2012: Applied Finance with R www.RinFinance.com See you in Chicago!!!! ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel