I agree. Great post! It's great to hear other people's experiences coming from different languages/programming styles.
-Jacob On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:03 PM, John Myles White <[email protected]>wrote: > Really nice post, Erik. Thanks for writing it! > > -- John > > On Jan 7, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Erik Engheim <[email protected]> wrote: > > Given that Julia is not even in version 1 and has a lot less libraries > than Python I don't think Julia is a serious contender in Scientific > Computing today. But I am pretty sure it will be. But that wont happen over > night. > > I love programming Julia. It is great for doing hobby stuff and just have > fun programming. There is a lot of opportunity to actually participate and > make serious additions to the language or libraries because so many things > don't exist yet or have not yet become finnished. > > To me Julia is at the moment the language that maps best to how I like to > think about programming problems. It has macros like LISP, but sane syntax > for doing math. I wrote a blog > entry<http://assoc.tumblr.com/post/71454527084/cool-things-you-can-do-in-julia>about > some of these points and on why I think Julia is more expressive and > creates more readable code than Python or Ruby > here<http://assoc.tumblr.com/post/71454527084/cool-things-you-can-do-in-julia> > . > > >
