Erm, what I meant to say was "Touting Julia's Math Chops might give people that this is the only thing Julia is good for. This is not true, I can imagine Julia fitting well for my other needs as well (namely network stuff)".
On Thursday, May 1, 2014 5:57:23 PM UTC+6, Nafiul Islam wrote: > > Hi there guys! > > I'm brand new to Julia, but I'm super excited about its prospects. The > truth is, I can't seem to stop myself from playing around with it. It seems > as though you've combined all the good stuff I liked in Haskell and Scala > with the ease of use that I get with Python. > > Right now, I've finished the MIT tutorials on Julia, namely the lightning > round and the talk on the underlying philosophies behind Julia. Luckily I > had a good understanding of Linear Algebra (albeit a little rusty), so the > first tutorial was not difficult. However, starting off with matrices and > complex number might be somewhat of a deterrent to some of the people I > know who could potentially reap great benefits from using Julia. I don't > dispute the fact that *what* was discussed was simple, but I feel that a > good ol' tutorial that helps people transition from thinking about the > traditional OO to OO/Type Sytem in Julia would be truly helpful. > > I can totally understand the creators of Julia wanting to hit it off with > the scientific community, but Julia (from my initial perspective) can work > quite well in building web-frameworks. Reading through Morsel.js, I can say > that although I don't understand everything thats going on, I can > understand the overall structure of things. Its great that the Lightning > round encouraged learners to dive into the source code, after all its just > Julia ;-) I might be wrong, but constantly touting Julia's Math chops might > give people the impression that the > > So, I wanted to start helping the Julia community in any way I can. I > created a chat room on stackoverflow -> > http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/51777/julia > > Right now, my university exams are over, so I can take some time to create > a couple of simple video tutorials. I hope you guys can critique them for > me, I wan to improve my skills. > > -- > Nafiul >
