Julia is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language designed for technical and scientific computing. It was created by Jeff Bezanson, Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski and Viral B. Shah, who published a website and blog post describing its mission on February 14, 2012. The language is built around multiple dispatch as its core paradigm, alongside parametric polymorphism, just-in-time compilation and parallel garbage collection, and its type system is dynamic, inferred, optional, nominative, parametric and strongly typed. Rather than traditional object-oriented classes, Julia dispatches methods based on the types of all of a function arguments. It has been adopted for numerical and technical computing by organizations including NASA, pharmaceutical companies such as Moderna, Pfizer and AstraZeneca, financial institutions such as JPMorgan and BlackRock, and research bodies such as CERN and MIT. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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First Released ParadigmMultiple dispatch, dynamic, just-in-time compiled 2 SignificanceAimed to close the gap between the ease of dynamic scripting languages and the speed of compiled languages for numerical and scientific computing. 2 Classification
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Is Julia only meant for scientific computing?
No. It targets numerical and scientific work first but is also used for general-purpose programming.
No. Julia was designed to meet the needs of high-performance numerical analysis and computational science without requiring a separate compilation step to be fast, but it is also effective for general-purpose programming, web use and as a specification language. Its core paradigm is multiple dispatch, which chooses a method based on the types of the arguments.
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1. Wikidata: Julia
- Wikidata Q2613697, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q2613697 P571 (inception)
- Wikidata Q2613697 P7078 (typing discipline)
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- Invented By: Alan Edelman
- Influenced By: Lua
- Influenced By: Perl
- Influenced By: Fortran
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On 14 February 2012, the team launched a website with a blog post explaining the language's mission.
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Julia is a dynamic general-purpose programming language.
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Julia is a dynamic general-purpose programming language.
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while also being effective for general-purpose programming
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