compelling examples for the documentation and wiki intro

[StefanKarpinski]

I always want to see what a programming language looks like when I check it out. It's very important to inform whether I'd actually use it or not. We need a nice self-contained sample of Julia code to go in the intro page that does something clever and shows off what the language can do early on.

Needs to be impressive, interactive, something people can type in themselves. Probably involving parallelism.

[ViralBShah]

Man, this one is difficult.

[StefanKarpinski]

I added a page in the wiki for Example Programs. We can collect examples there and eventually choose or distill them down to something really good.

[JeffBezanson]

There are several examples there now. Shall we start linking to it?

[ViralBShah]

I think we should have a linear algebra / fft / traditional matlab style usage example.
Also, the load ascii array example can perhaps be replaced with the more impressive dlmread.

What else do we need to do to close this issue?

[JeffBezanson]

At this point we should be able to browse through the library and stuff in examples/ and pick something appropriate from there.

[JeffBezanson]

I will guess that Viral is the hardest to impress, so it will fall to him to decide what is compelling enough :) Also Stefan has a lot on his plate.

[ViralBShah]

I think Alan will the ideal person to try this on. This certainly can wait for some more time.

[vtjnash]

does anything from the recent tutorial seem to fit? or ModInt?

[StefanKarpinski]

I think we can close this at this point.