Why are you trying to recruit him to Julia? 
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I think it's a great language for lots of things (even general programming, not just technical/numeric/scientific), and community is great!
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Replying to @GandalfSoftware @MikeRSpencer and
It's a bit grating though in this setting IMHO.
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Replying to @o_guest @MikeRSpencer and
Surprised you feel that way - I always like to learn about new things that might make my life easier - just said it *might* be better fit!
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Replying to @o_guest @GandalfSoftware and
But then again... it's a thread on Python love. It's not "what shall I learn"...
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Replying to @o_guest @MikeRSpencer and
Ah! It seemed to me to be more a "I found something new (Python) that made my life much easier" thread. I also do like Python (3.x!!!).
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In particular, I think a good engineer should have a number of different tools in their toolbox!
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Replying to @GandalfSoftware @MikeRSpencer and
We're not engineers though. But yes, engineers need to know many langs. I did software engineering — we learned tons. But I work in sci now.
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It's more about the science than the engineering, but I still think code is something that scis should work on of course.
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But there's a balance as we also need to fine tune other skills.
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Replying to @o_guest @GandalfSoftware and
That massive stack of analysis methods won't learn itself...
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