Why Julia.ipynb

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      "Why Julia?"
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      "Or: DIRHTLYAPL\n",
      "\n"
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      "\"Do I Really Have To Learn Yet Another Programming Language??\""
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      "##David P. Sanders\n",
      "\n",
      "###Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences\n",
      "###National University of Mexico (UNAM)\n",
      "\n",
      "###Twitter:  @DavidPSanders\n",
      "###GitHub:  dpsanders"
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      "Advantages of Julia"
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      "Julia:\n",
      "\n",
      "- is interpreted, but (JIT-) compiled\n",
      "- is high-level and easy to learn\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "- designed so easy to make fast from the start\n",
      "- is fast (~2--3x C speed)\n",
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      "Julia:\n",
      "\n",
      "- has a sophisticated type system\n",
      "- but it is not *necessary* to talk about types\n",
      "\n",
      "- has *multiple dispatch*: functions specialised on the types of their arguments\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "- has sophisticated *metaprogramming* (macros) for generating code programatically\n",
      "- allow the creation of domain-specific languages\n"
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      "Julia:\n",
      "\n",
      "- most of the standard library is implemented *in Julia itself* \n",
      "\n",
      "- avoids the infamous \"two-language problem\"\n",
      "\n",
      "- \"users are developers\"\n"
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      "Using Julia"
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      "- From the REPL (Read--Eval--Print Loop):\n",
      "\n",
      "        julia\n",
      "    \n",
      "    \n",
      "- Inside IJulia (IPython interface with Julia kernel):\n",
      "\n",
      "        ipython notebook --profile julia\n",
      "\n",
      "\n",
      "- Inside an IDE, e.g. LightTable + Jewel + Juno/Jupiter; Julia Studio"
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      "- Julia manual: <http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual>\n",
      "\n",
      "- julia-users mailing list:  <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/julia-users>"
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