# Programming Languages in the Wild
1) For discussion, you chose the programming language:  Julia

2) This language is: Domain Specific

3) Is this language Turing complete?:  I'm not sure

## Uses 
4) For what killer app, projects, or historical reason is this language best known or used ?: 

    Julia was first released in 2012 to be a high performing
    and expressive language for scientific computing, which
    involves understanding complex relationships of large
    amounts of data. 

    The Julia benchmarks show it to be slightly slower than
    the general purpose language Rust and significally faster
    than other languages designed for mathematical computation,
    such as FORTRAN, Python, Matlab, R, and Mathematica.

    Recently it was used by researchers at
    the University of Copenhagen, Peking University, and
    Imperial College London to map global genetic diversity.
    This involved over 90,000 mitochrondial dna sequences
    for over 4,500 species. This project is important in
    the context of understanding the loss of biodiversity
    on earth.

5) Is the answer to 4, which the language is known for, due to language features, community support or libraries, or something else?:

    Yes! The reasearchers of this and other projects
    explicity say they chose Julia for its high level
    syntax and speed. High level programming is easy
    to understand because it is closer to human speech
    rather than procedural machine code.

    Because the speed of a program handling
    this much data can cost significally less money
    and product results faster, Julia is an attractive
    option. Also, its simple syntax means that it can
    be easy for new developers to use and create
    projects that are accessible for others to learn from
    and expand.

6) As a programmer, what is easy to do in the language?:

    It is easy to build complex data structures from its
    base strucutes of tuples, arrays, and dictionaries.
    This is well suited for its designed domain in
    scientific computing.
    
7) What does the method to do the answer to 6 look like in general purpose languages like c or java?:

    All data structures in c must directly manage the
    memory of the computer or involve outside libraries
    that implement them. The second option would then
    involve including the proper header files and
    compiling the dependencies properly. 

8) Does the programmer have to give up anything to gain the benefits of this language?:

    Because Julia is a relatively new language, it does
    not have the same community as other older languages.
    Therefore, there is less support and stack overflow
    posts of fixing bugs. In addition, there are less
    libraries, which means that if you want to solve a
    more complex problem, you may the first person
    writing the solution in Julia.