Preface
The previous incarnation of this book was written when Julia was at v0.2, which scurried up to v0.4 by the time it went to press. Now I have been persuaded that a second version is overdue, and similarly, it was at v1.8.2 when I began and is now v1.9.4 but with a v1.10.x out as a release candidate and even v1.11 in development.
Why so long between editions? Julia in the past has not been reluctant to modify the language and seemingly continues to do so at the present time. There are many pitfalls in ignoring backward compatibility when developing a computing language. An example that probably many readers will be aware of is when Python tried to slither up from version 2 to version 3, a sizeable minority of the users had to be dragged ...
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