Julia is a new language for scientific computing that is winning
praise from a slew of very smart people, including Harlan Harris,
Chris Fonnesbeck, Douglas Bates, Vince Buffalo and Shane Conway. As a
language, it has lofty design goals, which, if attained, will make it
noticeably superior to Matlab, R and Python for scientific
programming. In the core development team?s own words:
We want a language that?s open source, with a liberal license. We
want the speed of C with the dynamism of Ruby. We want a language
that?s homoiconic, with true macros like Lisp, but with obvious,
familiar mathematical notation like Matlab. We want something as
usable for general programming as Python, as easy for statistics as R,
as natural for string processing as Perl, as powerful for linear
algebra as Matlab, as good at gluing programs together as the shell.
Something that is dirt simple to learn, yet keeps the most serious
hackers happy. We want it interactive and we want it compiled.
Read more at: http://www.r-bloggers.com/julia-i-love-you/
http://julialang.org/
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