Hi, we talked a little bit about the Julia language at the Berlin conference (off-programme). Now I saw a report about the New York Fed converting a model from Matlab to Julia: https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/doc/MatlabToJuliaTransi... Could be interesting.

Am 14.01.2016 um 14:51 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> we talked a little bit about the Julia language at the Berlin >> conference (off-programme). Now I saw a report about the New York >> Fed converting a model from Matlab to Julia: >> >> https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/doc/MatlabToJuliaTransi... >> >> >> >> Could be interesting. > > The whole Dynare project is jumping boat. > Also interesting indeed. One thing that caught my attention in the article above was the complaint about Matlab only having positional function arguments (AFAIK). Now I'm reluctant to write this because it is such a fundamental thing, but to be honest the same limitation is sometimes bothering me with gretl (or hansl, really) as well. I suppose adding keyword arguments to hansl is really too error-prone in terms of development, so I'm not really asking for it. And AFAICS bundles are supposed to be a workaround. The only thing that bothers me with bundles is that it takes so many lines of code to add a couple of members. Sometimes I think it would be nice to do these trivial assignments on one line, as in: b.a = 2; b.alpha = res; b.info = "yep" So effectively introducing another statement separation character in addition to the current "newline". FWIW, sven _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, oleg_komashko(a)ukr.net wrote: > I've read Michael Creel is planning > to change his econometrics from > Octave to Julia. Julia is definitely the next big thing. We MUST absolutely provide a foreign environment for Julia. Not for the upcoming version, but IMO it's priority one for the version after the next one.