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Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

You're reading from   Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia Proven solutions to common problems in software design for Julia 1.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648817
Length 532 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tom Kwong Tom Kwong
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Design Patterns
2. Design Patterns and Related Principles FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Julia Fundamentals
4. Modules, Packages, and Data Type Concepts 5. Designing Functions and Interfaces 6. Macros and Metaprogramming Techniques 7. Section 3: Implementing Design Patterns
8. Reusability Patterns 9. Performance Patterns 10. Maintainability Patterns 11. Robustness Patterns 12. Miscellaneous Patterns 13. Anti-Patterns 14. Traditional Object-Oriented Patterns 15. Section 4: Advanced Topics
16. Inheritance and Variance 17. Assessments 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Domain-specific language pattern

Julia is a general purpose programming language that can be used effectively for any domain problem. However, Julia is also one of the few programming languages that allows the developer to build new syntax to fit a specific domain usage.

So, a DSL is an example of Structured Query Language (SQL). SQL is designed to process data in a two-dimensional table structure. It is very powerful, and yet it is only appropriate when you need to handle data in tables.

There are a few prominent areas in the Julia ecosystem where a DSL is used extensively. The one that stood out the most is the DifferentialEquations package, which allows you to write differential equations in a form that is very close to their original mathematical notation. For example, consider the Lorenz system equations as follows:

The code to define these equations can be...

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