Re: Julia: a language for technical computing

2012-03-10 Thread Caligo
I'm not impressed. Sage is superior in many ways, and many who use things like Matlab or Mathematica are moving to Sage. Here are some old benchmarks: http://www.sagemath.org/tour-benchmarks.html They should include Sage in their High-Performance JIT Compiler comparison. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at

Julia: a language for technical computing

2012-03-02 Thread renoX
Hello, the thread about tuples reminded about Julia because it supports tuples natively and its syntax for (de)constructing tuples is simple: http://julialang.org/manual/functions/ It's a very different language from D, being dynamically typed (but with optionnal static typing and multiple d