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Welcome

Welcome to Julia!

Julia is a modern programming language aimed at scientific computing and designed to be fast and easy to code while offering very high performance.

Languages like MATLAB, R, and Python have been traditionally used by scientists because they are relatively easy to code in. These all depend on binaries written in languages like FORTRAN, C, C++ for much of the underlying code.

Julia was designed to offer both a modern, clean, simple syntax as well as the performance of compiled code. This makes the language a particularly great fit for demanding quantitative computing applications like data science and machine learning.

Caution

This is only a work in progress, a collection of notes.