Having been dabbling in Julia myself, I can agree it's definitely worth a look for people interested in numerical programming and lispy metaprogramming facilities. For people coming from other languages it can take a while to figure out where exactly you're supposed to *put* things, and the type system takes some getting used to, but there are some really neat features once you push through that.
I don't know how typical my experience is, but their "benchmark" page put me off the language for quite a while. (Explaining exactly why would be even more off-topic than this thread already is, but this SO link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9968578/speeding-up-julias-poorly-written-r-examples has arguments on both sides, including from Stefan). But one commercial with an annoyingly stupid jingle doesn't mean the product isn't worth buying, and I'm glad I finally decided to push mute. It's still a very small community -- I woke up one day and was in the top ten on StackOverflow in terms of answering Julia questions, and it's not because I've spent a lot of time doing it -- and the documentation "ecology" is as yet underdeveloped as a result. There are also a number of things they were surprisingly slow to embrace (modules, for one; the counterarguments were pretty silly), but they seem to come around eventually, so I'm optimistic about its future. Still not sure I'd recommend it as a language for beginners, or as an every-day multitool, but what it's good at it's very good at. Doug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
