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diff --git a/development/julia/README b/development/julia/README index 9722cf439b..da9edfb00c 100644 --- a/development/julia/README +++ b/development/julia/README @@ -1,7 +1,34 @@ Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. + It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. The library, largely written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, signal processing, and string processing. +In addition, the Julia developer community is contributing a number of external packages through +Julia's built-in package manager at a rapid pace. + +IJulia, a collaboration between the IPython and Julia communities, provides a powerful browser-based +graphical notebook interface to Julia. + +Julia programs are organized around multiple dispatch; by defining functions and overloading them for +different combinations of argument types, which can also be user-defined. + +A Summary of Features: + + * Multiple dispatch: providing ability to define function behavior across many combinations of argument types + * Dynamic type system: types for documentation, optimization, and dispatch + * Good performance, approaching that of statically-compiled languages like C + * Built-in package manager + * Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming facilities + * Call Python functions: use the PyCall package + * Call C functions directly: no wrappers or special APIs + * Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes + * Designed for parallelism and distributed computation + * Coroutines: lightweight "green" threading + * User-defined types are as fast and compact as built-ins + * Automatic generation of efficient, specialized code for different argument types + * Elegant and extensible conversions and promotions for numeric and other types + * Efficient support for Unicode, including but not limited to UTF-8 + * MIT licensed: free and open source |