Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to technical computing
I wonder what they think about or have learned from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language)</a> , another recent-ish attempt to deliver a modern and powerful scientific programming language.<p>Personally I'm a little wary of being ghettoised into something overly domain-specific for scientific/numerical computing. Really good interop may mitigate that -- something which can navigate the unholy mix of C, C++, fortran, matlab, octave, R and python routines one comes across trying to reproduce others research work, would indeed be awesome.<p>I do wonder if some of the noble demands of this project might be better delegated to library developers though, after adding a bare minimum of syntax and feature support to a powerful general-purpose language. For now Python+numpy+scipy seems a great 90% solution here.