Fortran (Was: The "does Python have variables?" debate)

[Rustom Mody]

On Sunday, May 11, 2014 11:47:55 AM UTC+5:30, Mark H. Harris wrote:
> 'Julia' is going to give everyone a not so small run for competition; 
> justifiably so,  not just against FORTRAN.
> 
> 
> Julia is Matlab and  R, Python, Lisp, Scheme; all rolled together on 
> steroids. Its amazing as a dynamic language, and its fast, like 
> lightning fast as well as multiprocessing (parallel processing) at its 
> core. Its astounding, really.

I think the big thing is that Julia is cooperating rather than competing

https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl

If they can carry this off, its a definite winning strategy