On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 5:33:59 PM UTC, David Gold wrote: > > I've been learning Julia as my first programming language, if I don't > count the VB I learned in high school tech and the small amount of R I > learned to pass STAT 201. > > For me, Julia has been an excellent first first language. >
Good to know as a data point of one.. I was wandering if my feeling was true that recommending Julia even to absolute beginners was misplaced.. Documentation is ok for me (including non-official ones I've looked at), but I'm not a beginner and might have a blind spot.. Not that you seems to be an absolute beginner. Also would you say error messages are good enough? > So, I've been very happy with my choice. However, I'll add a caveat. > I noticed it, and I've read a TON on Julia (and the ratio of what I read to what Julia code I actually write (or even to what I write *about* Julia) is too high..), that, maybe, makes me special/more patient than the average beginner. Hopefully, reading this much isn't needed for those who do not really want too - at least changes should be setteling down even more with 0.4 out soon.. [Mostly I read to convince myself that there is not a single (unfixable) flaw in Julia or that an even better alternative isn't there..] -- Palli.
