[julia-users] Re: What is Julia and what it is not?

2016-05-26 Thread Scott Jones
Jeff has already answered that it is not intended to be only a scientific language, at his thesis defense, and reaffirmed that just two nights ago at a talk. If I can state the case correctly, they felt that if they made the best scientific/numeric/technical language, which was a much harder tas

[julia-users] Re: What is Julia and what it is not?

2016-05-26 Thread Chris Rackauckas
As mentioned, the goal is for it to be a general purpose language with a scientific focus: Scientific language - It already has that down. It's easy to do mathematics with it, it's fast to prototype algorithms, and the code has very high performance. This is what most scientists are looking for

[julia-users] Re: What is Julia and what it is not?

2016-05-26 Thread Ford Ox
:-D :-D :-D add generous language: I have meant general purpose language of course. Dne čtvrtek 26. května 2016 16:50:16 UTC+2 Chris Rackauckas napsal(a): > > As mentioned, the goal is for it to be a general purpose language with a > scientific focus: > > Scientific language - It already has th

[julia-users] Re: What is Julia and what it is not?

2016-05-26 Thread Scott Jones
It *is* also a very generous language ;-) It gives us very nice facilities for writing performant code generically in rather few LOC - that seems generous to me! On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 11:34:43 AM UTC-4, Ford Ox wrote: > > :-D :-D :-D > > add generous language: I have meant general purpos