On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 3:56:44 AM UTC-5, Tamas Papp wrote: > > > Apologies if I caused you aggravation, that was not my intention. >
No apologies necessary, the aggravation was not from you, but from the *idea* of Julia *only* being a technical/scientific language, and that being used as a justification for not worrying about things that are important for general programming. Julia is already a great language, not just for technical/scientific projects, and is getting better daily. I did not mean to frame the question as "why Julia on architecture <X>", > but as "why <X> for running Julia". In this particular case, I'd love to see (a pared down) Julia running on things like the Raspberry Pi or Lego Mindstorms, so that my kids (or I) don't have to learn another language to program them. As far as my kids, I'd much rather have them learning to program with Julia rather than Java or C/C++, or even Python or JavaScript. (I do like Lua though, they learned some Lua with the ComputerCraft mod in MineCraft over a year ago) Best to you too! Scott
