Anything after a hashtag on a single line will be ignored by the program Symbolic computing in julia sympy.jl wraps the python package sympy With small, simple functions there’s no real reason to document your code, but longer functions may involve instructions that you might forget or other people might want to know.
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Many of julia’s special functions come from the usual c/fortran libraries, but some are written in pure julia code
Hybrid of scripted languages (like matlab, python, and r) and compiled languages (c++, fortran)
Specialization allows for custom treatment Multiple dispatch, a technique from computer science, picks the right algorithm for the right circumstance.
