On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 2:20:38 PM UTC, Iain Dunning wrote: > > I guess I (or rather, we) have had disproportional success recruiting new > Julia users. >
You may have one more user.. >[your competion] "either proprietary or slow" I forget the name of the package our professor used but yes, it was proprietary, as most software at the time used in teaching (unlike now, except for MATLAB). >BTW, if you want help selling an operations research person on Julia, we have some materials :) I was a little too pessimistic, from that OR professor I got this answer, in May, "I’ve tried Julia and am thinking about using it some more." to a very long post of mine that included: http://iaindunning.com/2013/sudoku-as-a-service.html The Julia package JuMP is an algebraic modeling language for linear (and integer and quadratic) programming [..]Julia's fantastic metaprogramming functionality has allowed us to create a particularily fast and expressive modeling language. At the time I thought I might try to program A* in Julia.. See now other interesting stuff on your site and that you've been around and seemed you like: http://iaindunning.com/2013/an-icelandic-adventure.html -- Palli.
