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    "# Julia: the future of scientific computing\n",
    "\n",
    "John Gibson, University of New Hampshire\n",
    "\n",
    "Integrated Applied Mathematics  \n",
    "Department of Mathematics and Statistics\n",
    "\n",
    "Transturb17: Recurrent Flows Workshop  \n",
    "Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics  \n",
    "UC Santa Barbara\n",
    "\n",
    "2 February 2017"
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    "## Julia is...\n",
    "\n",
    "  * new scientific programming language\n",
    "  * modern, dynamic, high-level, general-purpose like Python\n",
    "  * aimed squarely at numerics, like Matlab\n",
    "  * metaprogramming power of LISP\n",
    "  * fast as C, Fortran\n",
    "  \n",
    "**Julia solves the two-language problem, makes new things possible**"
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   "source": [
    "## Julia development\n",
    "\n",
    "  * julia-0.1 2012....julia-0.5 2016....julia-1.0 2017?\n",
    "  * open-source MIT license, hosted on Github\n",
    "  * core development: MIT, Julia Computing LLC\n",
    "  * funding: Moore Foundation, NumFocus, Intel, Microsoft, Wall St. firms\n",
    "  * $\\sim600$ contributors to core language and base libraries\n",
    "  * $\\sim1000$ official add-on packages "
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