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For the most part, no. The language and community are significantly math oriented. However, if you're someone who likes to learn languages just to broaden their

For the most part, no. The language and community are significantly math oriented. However, if you're someone who likes to learn languages just to broaden their horizons a little bit, Julia might be a good choice. It's one of the few languages in common use which has multimethods (the other major one being Common Lisp). Actually, in general Julia is surprisingly Lispy for a language with Algol-family syntax.

stevelosh 9y ago
> Actually, in general Julia is surprisingly Lispy for a language with Algol-family syntax. It's less surprising if you know there's still a version of the Julia REPL that works with sexpressions: https://youtu.be/dK3zRXhrFZY?t=5m58s https://youtu.be/dK3zRXhrFZY?t=5m58s