The Julia Programming Language

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Post by jemeshsu » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 10:50 AM UTC

The Julia Programming Language
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Re: The Julia Programming Language

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Post by yarapavan » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 11:45 AM UTC

Congrats! Great job!!

Re: The Julia Programming Language

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Post by almost » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 11:51 AM UTC

Awesome stuff: http://julialang.org/manual/metaprogramming/

Re: The Julia Programming Language

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Post by mjwalshe » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 11:56 AM UTC

And the moon on a stick :-) Not sure many "technical" programmers would take c as the desert island programing language.

Sound interesting though if it can make hadoop easier to use id take that as win I dont think its going to replace fortran as a HPC language.

Re: The Julia Programming Language

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 12:21 PM UTC

mjwalshe wrote: post #4

And the moon on a stick :-) Not sure many "technical" programmers would take c as the desert island programing language. Sound interesting though if it can make hadoop easier to use id take that as win I dont think its going to replace fortran as a HPC language.

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Re: The Julia Programming Language

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 12:27 PM UTC

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Re: The Julia Programming Language

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Post by jfager » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 12:27 PM UTC

Just spent the last hour reading through the docs and playing around with it. This is some damn sexy stuff. It's been a long time since I've been this excited by a language.

Re: The Julia Programming Language

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Post by coffeeaddicted » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 12:34 PM UTC

mjwalshe wrote: post #4

And the moon on a stick :-) Not sure many "technical" programmers would take c as the desert island programing language. Sound interesting though if it can make hadoop easier to use id take that as win I dont think its going to replace fortran as a HPC language.

C as desert island programming language but making all indexing 1-based: "the first element of any integer-indexed object is found at index 1, not index 0, and the last element is found at index n rather than n-1, when the string has a length of n." Also begin end blocks - maybe there was a pascal ninja hidden in the syntax committee room?

Re: The Julia Programming Language

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Post by disgruntledphd2 » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 12:42 PM UTC

I'm a little worried about some of those benchmarks. They appear to have benchmarked R from a few years back against 2011 Matlab, for instance. In addition, they provide no code used for the benchmarks. That being said, this looks really interesting, and I'm gonna bookmark it for when I have time to examine it properly (after the damn phd is finally submitted).

Re: The Julia Programming Language

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Post by julien_p » Sat, Feb 18, 2012, 12:42 PM UTC

coffeeaddicted wrote: post #8

mjwalshe wrote: post #4

And the moon on a stick :-) Not sure many "technical" programmers would take c as the desert island programing language. Sound interesting though if it can make hadoop easier to use id take that as win I dont think its going to replace fortran as a HPC language.

C as desert island programming language but making all indexing 1-based: "the first element of any integer-indexed object is found at index 1, not index 0, and the last element is found at index n rather than n-1, when the string has a length of n." Also begin end blocks - maybe there was a pascal ninja hidden in the syntax committee room?

More likely Matlab than Pascal.

  Julia's syntax is intended to be familiar to users of MATLAB®.