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Differences from other languages - Julia Tutorial
From the course: Learning Julia
Differences from other languages
- [Instructor] If you have prior experience working in some other popular programming languages, then you should be aware that there are some key differences between Julia and those other languages you've used before. I'm going to highlight some of the more important differences here, but you should be aware that I won't be able to cover everything. The Julia documentation does a pretty good job of listing the details. So I encourage you to check that out in addition to the information I present here. So let's start by looking at some of the key differences between Julia and Python which is also a very popular language for working with data science. In Julia, white space and indentation are not significant the way they are in Python. They don't affect how your program executes, and this is obviously a big change from Python where indentation is used to separate functional blocks from each other. Another significant difference is that indexes in python are zero based, but in Julia they…
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