Julia Programming Language Receives $600k Donation

jones_supa writes: The Julia programming language has received a $600k donation from Moore Foundation. The foundation wants to get the language into a production version. This has a goal to create more efficient and powerful scientific computing tools to assist in data-driven research. The money will be granted over the next two years so the Julia Language team can move their core open computing language and libraries into the first production version. The Julia Language project aims to create a dynamic programming language that is general purpose but designed to excel at numerical computing and data science. It is especially good at running MATLAB and R style programs.

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jesus thats all it takes?

[nimbius]

as a jaded sysadmin im in the wrong business. Ive learned perl and python and bash and even picked up a case of php along the way but if all it takes for hipsters to belch a half a million dollars at me is a language? then this is where it begins, slashdot.

My language is called twerk-cankle. It was named after a dance that comes from a small island in the osowhatwhocares islands and is ritually performed with great efficiency. my classes are called palpatisms and you instantiate them by using the pelvic_thrust operator. all code is terminated with yoskrilldropit(hard) which calls a completely gender neutral subroutine to issue enlightenments to my interpreter. The interpreter which you can download under the BSD, MIT, PCP, GPL, and my own personal DERP license uses spare CPU cycles to search the ram heap for Kony. Ive also released a debugger called shitlord which runs as an elevated user once after checking its privilege and enrolling a small orphinage of women and nuns into the girls who code program. Processes when threaded are done so in a way that recognizes france's tragedy and assert a macklemore call to find 99 cent urine scented clothing on the memory bus.