WHY JULIA IS CREATED?

We want the speed of C with the dynamism of Ruby. We want a language that's homoiconic, with true macros like Lisp, but with obvious, familiar mathematical notation like Matlab. We want something as usable for general programming as Python, as easy for statistics as R, as natural for string processing as Perl, as powerful for linear algebra as Matlab, as good at gluing programs together as the shell. Something that is dirt simple to learn, yet keeps the most serious hackers happy. We want it interactive and we want it compiled. When Julia was conceived in 2009 at MIT the goal was to solve a problem that still exists: the need to use two (or more) languages, one for high performance (C or C) and another that made programming complex systems a more pleasant experience (the Python example).