This section looks at some topics outside conventional Julia coding, so you may want to omit it for the first reading. However, you may also find it interesting!

Working with Julia is about enabling the analyst/programmer to develop enterprise grade code without the need to develop in a second (compiled) language due to a necessity to improve the performance.

It is true Julia that is fast, but this is not what makes it special. However, it is quite nice that it is fast and I'll first look at some of the reasons why.

Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time quotes a well-known anecdote concerning a lecture Bertrand Russell was giving in the 1920s on cosmology, when the known universe was considered to be comprised of just our Milky Way galaxy.

Russell described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called the galaxy.

At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said...