I love it when new projects come out of the gate with a `/debian/` directory. Great way to reduce barriers to adoption. I'm actually surprised that it is not in experimental yet...
Julia, I Love You
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#12I'm actually especially interested in taking the [web server]( https://github.com/chzyer/JuliaWebServer ) and building out a lean-and-mean MVC framework. Though it's designed as a scientific language, their goals of having C-like speed and yet Ruby-like beauty make it the perfect target for such a project. Anyone else interested in trying it out with me?
What do you have in mind? A microframework, like Flask or Sinatra? I like that idea. I'd have to real dive into the internal of something like Werkzeug before trying to help out. But the Julia language itself looks fairly straightforward.
I just finished up building a microblogging framework using Flask, and I'd love to do the same with a lean MVC framework in Julia, particularly if you achieve anything close to C-like performance.
Is Julia said to be fairly stable at this point?
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#13Possibly sexist question: Does giving a female name to a programming language increase the rate of its adoption? AFAIK, this is the only such language (perl was nearly named gloria, though!). Does anyone know the etymology of the name (julialang.org seems to be down, so I couldn't check there)? There are Julia sets but that's for the lastname of the mathematician Gaston Julia.
You're forgetting Ada, a very interesting language, but one that has suffered from a constantly low rate of adoption.
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#14From the post: For a more powerful example (lifted straight from the Julia docs), we can compare Julia and R code for computing the 25th Fibonacci number recursively. How is it a powerful example? How is it meaningful when comparing programming languages (and implementations)? Maybe it is just a 4/1 joke? Or is it really meaningful for people who otherwise use R?
500 > 75 In the context of speed, 500 times slower is more dramatic than 75 times slower.
500 > 75
I don't think anyone has trouble with the arithmetical inequality. The issue is that the recursive Fibonacci number algorithm is notoriously unrealistic (it's exponential in its argument, growing as φ^n). Because of this, the claim that the example is more "powerful" is a little dubious.
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#15Possibly sexist question: Does giving a female name to a programming language increase the rate of its adoption? AFAIK, this is the only such language (perl was nearly named gloria, though!). Does anyone know the etymology of the name (julialang.org seems to be down, so I couldn't check there)? There are Julia sets but that's for the lastname of the mathematician Gaston Julia.
I doubt it matters, really. Ada is still laughed at rather than adopted widely (too bad, since it is not that bad as a language).
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#16Possibly sexist question: Does giving a female name to a programming language increase the rate of its adoption? AFAIK, this is the only such language (perl was nearly named gloria, though!). Does anyone know the etymology of the name (julialang.org seems to be down, so I couldn't check there)? There are Julia sets but that's for the lastname of the mathematician Gaston Julia.
I don't see a strong pattern. There are others named after female first names that aren't particularly popular (most, really), though the set of popular languages is small enough that it's not clear there's enough data to draw any conclusions.
Apart from Ada, which is probably the most popular language in the category, there are two named Alice (http://www.alice.org/, http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/), and others named Claire (http://www.claire-language.com/), Mary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(programming_language)), and Miranda (http://miranda.org.uk/). If you allow ancient Greek names, there's also Io (http://iolanguage.com/) and Ioke (http://ioke.org/).
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#17Possibly sexist question: Does giving a female name to a programming language increase the rate of its adoption? AFAIK, this is the only such language (perl was nearly named gloria, though!). Does anyone know the etymology of the name (julialang.org seems to be down, so I couldn't check there)? There are Julia sets but that's for the lastname of the mathematician Gaston Julia.
Ruby.
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#18I'm actually especially interested in taking the [web server]( https://github.com/chzyer/JuliaWebServer ) and building out a lean-and-mean MVC framework. Though it's designed as a scientific language, their goals of having C-like speed and yet Ruby-like beauty make it the perfect target for such a project. Anyone else interested in trying it out with me?
What do you have in mind? A microframework, like Flask or Sinatra? I like that idea. I'd have to real dive into the internal of something like Werkzeug before trying to help out. But the Julia language itself looks fairly straightforward. I just finished up building a microblogging framework using Flask, and I'd love to do the same with a lean MVC framework in Julia, particularly if you achieve anything close to C-li…
Exactly what I was thinking.. something small and light, but elegant (very much like Julia itself!). I have little experience in this area and have only built the most lightweight frameworks for myself, but if we start a git repo I'll be the first to dive in and start poking around. I think it would be a really cool project.
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#19I wonder if they have any plans to support MPI? On most of the super computers I use that is the only option for parallelism across compute nodes.
Currently Julia handles parallelism on its own: you use the parallel primitives or higher-level functions provided by the language, not an mpi, and run over multiple processes using either "julia -p " (on a single machine) or "Julia -hostfile " (on a cluster). The Julia interpreter does the networking itself in the background: currently I'm pretty sure this tunnels over ssh.
I rather like Julia's parallel syntax, but I'd really prefer that the inter-host communication by done via MPI on the back end for performance. Something to hack at if I ever get time...
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#20Possibly sexist question: Does giving a female name to a programming language increase the rate of its adoption? AFAIK, this is the only such language (perl was nearly named gloria, though!). Does anyone know the etymology of the name (julialang.org seems to be down, so I couldn't check there)? There are Julia sets but that's for the lastname of the mathematician Gaston Julia.
It seems there is a stronger correlation with facial hair: http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/30/secret-for-popular-programm...
Not sure what that means for the sexes, possibly nothing.