Thanks Scot, I emailed Prof. Norvig to let him know of the translation and his reply was: "Very nice! The more I see Julia, the more I like it."
On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 2:08:22 PM UTC+2, Scott T wrote: > > I saw the original a while ago and thought it was really cool. I liked > your translation! > > On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 10:50:26 UTC, Mohammed El-Beltagy wrote: >> >> Recently I came across a beautiful notebook by Peter Norvig about >> Probability Paradoxes. >> It was done in Python and I decided to see if I could convert it to >> Julia. It was such a satisfying exercise and really showed the power of >> Julia multiple dispatch and its elegance. There were naturally fewer >> library imports and in my mind the code is more readable. Also the it was >> interesting to contrast Python's mode of OO vs. Julia's. The Julia code was >> only slightly more verbose, but it seemed clearer to me. >> >> You could check out my Julia translation at >> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/mbeltagy/3ba5f77da6382da192c3 >> and contrast it with the original at >> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Probability.ipynb >> >>
