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Julia Programming Overview
Julia is a high-performance, open source computing language, mostly applied to data analysis, machine learning, and other scientific and technical computing applications.
The language combines the ease of use of Python or R with the speed of C and eliminates the need for using two languages to develop data intensive applications. It is as readable and high-level as Python and because of its type inference and optional typing, behaves as a dynamic language. It is also as fast as C, but much more readable. As a new programming language, Julia borrowed some of the best features from other modern languages. For example, like Ruby, it doesn’t use semicolons or curly braces for delimiting code; instead, it uses a more ...
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