I've checked it out on your recommendation. I like the syntax even better than Nimrod's, it has better support for scientific work, and the floating-point perfo

I've checked it out on your recommendation. I like the syntax even better than Nimrod's, it has better support for scientific work, and the floating-point performance is virtually identical. The only problem is that global variables are apparently not allowed to be typed as plain primitives, so this program: s = 1.0 while s<1.0e10 s = s*1.00000001 end println(s) Has mysteriously terrible performance. You have to use: function test() s = 1.0 while s<1.0e10 s = s*1.00000001 end println(s) end test() to see what Julia can really do.