Re: [julia-users] Julia: First Month

2014-05-08 Thread Stefan Karpinski
Thanks for reporting these first impressions – I find this sort of thing really helpful and interesting. We did try really hard to make the learning curve for Julia very gentle, the idea being that people who don't care about fancy language features should be able to use it productively too and

Re: [julia-users] Julia: First Month

2014-05-08 Thread Mike Innes
Am I right in thinking that the issues you have with function call overloading are equivalent to those involved with multiple inheritance? In the sense that overloading function application effectively makes an array (for example) a member of both AbstractArray and Callable, which will create

[julia-users] Julia: First Month

2014-05-06 Thread Abram Demski
Hi all! I've been using Julia for a little over a month now, and I thought it would be fun/informative to write a little post about my experience. I'm mostly a Common Lisp guy. I write AI code in an academic setting. However, I recently became enthusiastic about Clojure and was trying to start a