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Long time.

Wow long time no post, I have actually been quite busy. For starters My primary machine is now Linux. After about 10 years I have finally moved back to owning a desktop and put Linux on it. I have not used Linux for a couple of years but am quite happy to get back to it. Of course I still have Window laptop but most of my time is now spent on my Linux machine. To be honest it took a few installs to get a version of Linux I like, yep ended up with Mint. Installing all the tools and then reinstalling them when I decided this Linux was not for me took some time. But finally I feel like I am heading in the right direction and starting to make progress. As I was in a tinkering phase I decided to have a look at the Julia programming language. I really like it. No where near the complexity of Scala and seems quite fast. I have only written a few trivial programs for the moment. I don’t intend to use it as my workhorse language but I have been looking around for a language to code up