Are there concepts ingrained by 30 years of using Pyhon in my brain which I need to throw away and get rid of because they will lead to issues with understanding how to read and write Julia code (except zero-based indexing, which I didn’t get friend of after 30 years of using it)? By the way: such …

The updated doc is here: Noteworthy Differences from other Languages · The Julia Language Julia’s range indexing has the format of x[start:step:stop], whereas Python’s format is x[start:(stop+1):step]. Hence, x[0:10:2] in Python is equivalent to x[1:2:10] in Julia. Similarly, x[::-1] in Python, wh…

Which concepts known from Python programming are useful in understanding Julia and which are not?

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Which concepts known from Python programming are useful in understanding Julia and which are not?

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