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==History==
Work on Julia began in 2009, when [[Jeff Bezanson (programmer)|Jeff Bezanson]], [[Stefan Karpinski]], [[Viral B. Shah]], and [[Alan Edelman]] set out to create a free language that was both high-level and fast. On 14 February 2012, the team launched a website with a blog post explaining the language's mission.<ref name="announcement" /> In an interview with ''[[InfoWorld]]'' in April 2012, Karpinski said of the name "Julia": "There's no good reason, really. It just seemed like a pretty name."<ref name="infoworld"
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| title = New Julia language seeks to be the C for scientists
| url = https://www.infoworld.com/article/2616709/new-julia-language-seeks-to-be-the-c-for-scientists.html
| magazine = InfoWorld
| date = 18 April 2012
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| archive-date= 13 September 2014
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140913234252/http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/new-julia-language-seeks-be-the-c-scientists-190818
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}}</ref> Bezanson said he chose the name on the recommendation of a friend,<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Torre |first1=Charles |title=Stefan Karpinski and Jeff Bezanson on Julia |url=https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Stefan-Karpinski-and-Jeff-Bezanson-Julia-Programming-Language |website=Channel 9 |publisher=MSDN |access-date=4 December 2018 |archive-date=4 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204102053/https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Stefan-Karpinski-and-Jeff-Bezanson-Julia-Programming-Language |url-status=live }}</ref> then years later wrote:
{{blockquote|Maybe julia stands for "[[Jeff Bezanson (programmer)|Jeff]]'s [[MLisp|uncommon lisp]] is automated"?<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Bezanson |first1=Jeff |title=CAS Benchmarks |url=https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cas-benchmarks-symbolics-jl-and-maxima/58359/17 |website=discourse.julialang.org |date=2 April 2021 |access-date=2 April 2021 |archive-date=2 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402224346/https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cas-benchmarks-symbolics-jl-and-maxima/58359/17 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
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===Economics, finance, and political science===
* The [[Federal Reserve Bank of New York]]
* Also the [[Bank of Canada]], [[central bank]], for macroeconomic modeling<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-02 |title=Finance and Economics Use Cases |url=https://discourse.julialang.org/t/finance-and-economics-use-cases/9452/104 |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=Julia Programming Language |language=en}}</ref>
* [[BlackRock]], the world's largest asset manager, for [[financial time-series analysis]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=D'Cunha |first=Suparna Dutt |date=2017-09-20 |title=How A New Programming Language Created By Four Scientists Now Used By The World's Biggest Companies |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/suparnadutt/2017/09/20/this-startup-created-a-new-programming-language-now-used-by-the-worlds-biggest-companies/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001082708/https://www.forbes.com/sites/suparnadutt/2017/09/20/this-startup-created-a-new-programming-language-now-used-by-the-worlds-biggest-companies/?sh=2c98522a7de2 |archive-date=2022-10-01 |access-date=2022-10-01 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>
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