In reply to Jeff, I am no Julia expert. However I am going to stick my neck out here. Yes, learn Julia. Firstly there is a definite 'buzz' in the Julia community and you encounter science and engineering experts at every turn. Secondly, where I come from. My background is in high energy physics, from the era of old style FORTRAN. I gather that HEP codes are currently written in C++, probably by physicists who are not experts. I would really like to see clean, modern language used in physics simulations. I would like to use the term "strongly typed" - but in fact Julia is anything but. I gather the correct term is "duck typed" - which I rather like.
On 19 September 2017 at 22:10, Jeffrey Layton <layto...@gmail.com> wrote: > John, > > Have you done much Julia coding? Can you talk about your experience? > > I have threatened to learn it for a while but your post has prompted me to > finally start learning Julia :) > > Thanks! > > Jeff > > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 7:43 AM, John Hearns via Beowulf < > beowulf@beowulf.org> wrote: > >> I see HPCwire has an article on Julia. I am a big fan of Julia, so >> though it worth pointing out. >> https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/julia-joins-petaflop-club/ >> Though the source of this seems old news - it is a presentation from this >> year's JuliaCon >> >> JuliaCon 2018 will be talking place at UCL in London so mark your >> diaries. Yours truly should be there. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> >> >
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