I can save you some time, if you allow .. at present and forward more years than you expect, there is no better nor any roughly as good.
On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 7:34:09 AM UTC-4, Páll Haraldsson wrote: > > > 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. > >
