Previous discussion: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3606380" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3606380</a><p>Their site is down right now, so the 10 day old comments might be able to satisfy some amount of curiosity.
"All indexing in Julia is 1-based"<p>I once designed/implemented a language where the biggest mistake I made was using 1-based indexing. At first it looked like it was going to be easier to understand/use but 0-based indexing is actually much more convenient when dealing with indexes arithmetic.<p>PS: the "metaprogramming" stuff is fabulous.
Julia is the subject of today's <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/</a><p>The webcast is delayed and there's always something interesting that happens after the camera goes off.
ViralBShah: your account was shadow-banned in the last discussion 10 days ago.<p>(No reason I can see to ban one of the authors. Check logged out or from another account with "showdead" on.)