<div dir="ltr"><div>In reply to Jeff, I am no Julia expert.</div><div>However I am going to stick my neck out here. Yes, learn Julia.</div><div>Firstly there is a definite 'buzz' in the Julia community and you encounter science and engineering experts at every turn.</div><div>Secondly, where I come from. My background is in high energy physics, from the era of old style FORTRAN.</div><div>I gather that HEP codes are currently written in C++, probably by physicists who are not experts.</div><div>I would really like to see clean, modern language used in physics simulations.</div><div>I would like to use the term "strongly typed" - but in fact Julia is anything but.</div><div>I gather the correct term is "duck typed" - which I rather like.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 September 2017 at 22:10, Jeffrey Layton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laytonjb@gmail.com" target="_blank">laytonjb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>John,<br><br></div>Have you done much Julia coding? Can you talk about your experience?<br></div><div><br></div>I have threatened to learn it for a while but your post has prompted me to finally start learning Julia :)<br><br></div>Thanks!<br><br></div>Jeff<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 7:43 AM, John Hearns via Beowulf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank">beowulf@beowulf.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>I see HPCwire has an article on Julia. I am a big fan of Julia, so though it worth pointing out.</div><div><a href="https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/julia-joins-petaflop-club/" target="_blank">https://www.hpcwire.com/off-th<wbr>e-wire/julia-joins-petaflop-cl<wbr>ub/</a></div><div>Though the source of this seems old news - it is a presentation from this year's JuliaCon</div><div><br></div><div>JuliaCon 2018 will be talking place at UCL in London so mark your diaries. Yours truly should be there.</div><div><br></div></div>
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