ScottPJones

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by ScottPJones 9y ago
Julia has improved quite a lot since the "Giving Up on Julia" blog was written, and even back two years ago when he wrote it, he'd missed some packages that would have solved his issues. I'm very glad that Tom has taken
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by ScottPJones 9y ago
1-based arrays, and column-major layout of arrays annoyed me at first, however, one of the beautiful things is that much of Julia is written in Julia. If you want 0-based (or arbitrary based!) arrays, then simply use the https://
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by ScottPJones 9y ago
Handling technical/scientific/numeric programming well is rather a hard nut to crack, and that is where the developers of Julia wanted a better solution for their own "greedy" programming needs, but Jeff Bezanson has bee
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by ScottPJones 10y ago
Thanks. I've never had any problems with constructive criticism, no matter how harsh it might seem (often that is where you learn the most). The problem is when people make disrespectful, disparaging, insulting remarks (which is agains
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by ScottPJones 10y ago
Yes, a year ago I'd never worked on any open source project, didn't use GitHub, Google Groups, Twitter, StackOverflow, or any of the other programmer social media sites, and was a total newbie about Julia, using git, and dealing w
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by ScottPJones 10y ago
The rude behavior definitely exists, I can point out a number of examples if you send me your e-mail address (you can look me up, @ScottPJones on GitHub, easily enough). I've seen that that sort of disrespectful behavior tends to sprea
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by ScottPJones 10y ago
Actually, for the sort of low-level bit twiddling code that I frequently do, 1-based indexing complicates the code greatly. I also need to pass structures that contain indices back and forth to C, so the 1-based indices cause extra overhead
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by ScottPJones 10y ago
I do think it's seasonal, however not connected to GSoC. Many of the major contributors are (or were) students (Julia seems to be detrimental to people finishing their PhDs, except in the case of Jeff Bezanson, where in some sense he
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by ScottPJones 10y ago
I haven't disappeared (even though somebody just might have preferred that I had done so), I still love the Julia language (even though I think there are some warts, some flab that can be lost, etc.), am still programming in Julia pret
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by ScottPJones 10y ago
Keno - take a look at what I did in https://github.com/ScottPJones/StringUtils.jl (building on the backs of giants, such as Tom Breloff, Dahua Lin, and others, incorporating some code from Formatting.jl). It solves pr
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by ScottPJones 10y ago
It does look like support for arbitrarily based arrays (like Fortran 90) will be available in Julia v0.5 (thanks to Tim Holy's great work). Julia is very flexible, and the next thing is to allow row-major instead of just column-majo