"Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. The library, mostly written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, FFTs, and string processing. More libraries continue to be added over time. Julia programs are organized around defining functions, and overloading them for different combinations of argument types (which can also be user-defined)."

"Towards the end of the 1980s middleware began to emerge that attempted to address these issues. Initial middleware offerings addressed specific handfuls of platforms or languages and thus had limited usefulness. Over time, however, middleware products have become more and more advanced, supporting multiple platforms, languages and protocols."