I've never once before heard of Julia, but it is really interesting how you described it as a functional programming language, one which could truly be advantageous for scientific purposes. I might give learning it a try soon (the Julia code snippet in the page you provided looks so beautifully uncomplicated!). My interest for now is in neural networks and deep learning in general, but adding another language to my things-to-learn-in-2018 wouldn't be so bad.
Thank you for dropping by and sharing, @forestacorn! And Welcome to steemit! :D
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