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A combination of type inference, just in time compiling and multiple dispatch. The function is compiled at run-time if the signature is not already compiled.

I've not really found the 1 index much of a problem, makes translating other code a bit awkward.

The new dynamic indexing scheme (0 based, -10 based, whatever) seems interesting.

What Julia gets me is a stats / machine learning environment I had to awkwardly program in Octave.




Neat. Like I said, I don't think I'll be picking it up, but I'm glad it works for you.




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