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I can do straight forward things in Julia, but I'm not sure I get how to use the more advanced features well (homoiconic, mutiple dispatch (like C++?), abstract syntax trees, etc). The documentation describes the features, but not how to put them together. It also refers to "informal" interfaces, which I hope does not mean undocumented interfaces. Any good documents or online lectures about this?

It would be very useful for the math and science reddits if users could enter math formulas and have them display in the standard notation.

There is a very easy solution to this: the mathjax.js script. The details are at www.mathjax.org. The main problem for the reddit software would be to set a syntax for entering math that does not conflict with other markup.

The mathjax software will let you enter math in standard LaTeX notation, broadly used by professionals and students, or in ASCIIMath, which might be more comfortable for the less professionally involved users. You can also enter math in mathml. That's too verbose for humans, but there are many programs you could cut and paste

1. Climate Change !!!
2. Income Inequality and it's effect on politics.
3. Ending the recession
4. Funding for Science is inadequate, US Science is in trouble.
5. Funding for Higher Education is completely screwed up.