Julia as Glue
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. ~ Alan J. Perlis Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? ~ Alan J Perlis Is Julia the solution to the two language problem ? The two language problem is usually described as arising from using a language like Python or R and discovering that it is two slow for the task at hand. In order to get adequate performance, key routines are written in C or C++. A prime example is Numpy for Python. Another example is using Python for data munging and R for statistical analysis and visualization. I have been using the Python and R combo for some time now. I have started looking at Julia as a possible replacement for both which, if it is as fast as advertised, has the bonus of speeding up processing. One of the key tasks in data munging is gl...