Who initiated the project, and why? What deficiencies in existing languages are they trying to address?
The belief that Yet Another Programming Language is the answer to the world's problems is a persistent, but (IMNSHO) a naive one. On 12/8/19, Andrew Shitov <a...@shitov.ru> wrote: > Let’s not hide the fact that Julia development raised 4.6 million dollars > and the language is production-ready. > > On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 at 12:46, JJ Merelo <jjmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It might have been, but syntax is more Python-like to the point that in >> some cases it's exactly the same. It's got a very extensive macro >> systems, >> which enables it to work concurrently, for instance. It's more >> scientific-computing oriented, which means that there are all sort of >> mathematical modules for it, and not so many for web, databases, or >> things >> like that. >> >> El dom., 8 dic. 2019 a las 4:38, Tom Blackwood (<tom.blkw...@gmail.com>) >> escribió: >> >>> Hello >>> >>> How do you think of Julia language? >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language) >>> >>> It says it is also influenced by perl language. >>> >>> Regards >>> >> >> >> -- >> JJ >> > -- > Andrew Shitov > ______________________________________________________________________ > a...@shitov.ru | http://shitov.ru >
