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-# Was ist Julia? {.unnumbered}
+
+# What is Julia? {.unnumbered}
 
 
-Julia ist eine noch recht junge für *scientific computing* konzipierte moderne Programmiersprache.
+Julia is a relatively young, modern programming language designed for *scientific computing*.
 
-Ein kleines Codebeispiel:
+A small code example:
 
 ```{julia}
 #| error: false
@@ -33,25 +34,24 @@ end
 f
 ```
 
-## Geschichte {.unnumbered}
+## History {.unnumbered}
 
--   2009 Beginn der Entwicklung am *Computer Science and Artificial
-    Intelligence Laboratory* des MIT
--   2012 erste Release v0.1
+-   2009 Start of development at the *Computer Science and Artificial
+    Intelligence Laboratory* of MIT
+-   2012 first release v0.1
 -   2018 Version v1.0
--   aktuell: v1.11.4 vom 10. März 2025
+-   current: v1.11.4 from March 10, 2025
 
-Zum ersten Release 2012 haben die Schöpfer von Julia ihre Ziele und Motivation in dem Blogbeitrag  [Why we created Julia](https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/)
-interessant zusammengefasst.
+For the first release in 2012, the creators of Julia summarized their goals and motivation in a blog post [Why we created Julia](https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia) interestingly.
 
-Für ein Bild von *Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, Jeff
-Bezanson* und *Alan Edelman* bitte hier klicken: <https://news.mit.edu/2018/julia-language-co-creators-win-james-wilkinson-prize-numerical-software-1226>.
+For a picture of *Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, Jeff
+Bezanson*, and *Alan Edelman*, please click here: <https://news.mit.edu/2018/julia-language-co-creators-win-james-wilkinson-prize-numerical-software-1226>.
 
 
 
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- Kurzfassung:
+Short summary:
 
 > We want a language that is
 >
@@ -67,26 +67,26 @@ Bezanson* und *Alan Edelman* bitte hier klicken: <https://news.mit.edu/2018/juli
 
 
 
-Formale Syntax
+Formal syntax
 :  
-- Algorithmisches Denken
-- Gefühl für die Effizienz und Komplezität von Algorithmen
-- Besonderheiten der Computerarithmetik, insbes. Gleitkommazahlen
-- „Ökosystem“ der Sprache: 
-- die Kunst des Debugging.
+- Algorithmic thinking
+- Intuition for the efficiency and complexity of algorithms
+- Special features of computer arithmetic, particularly floating-point numbers
+- The "ecosystem" of the language
+- The art of debugging.
 
 :::
 
 
-## Warum Julia? {.unnumbered}
+## Why Julia? {.unnumbered}
 
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-## aus [The fast track to Julia](https://cheatsheet.juliadocs.org/)
+## from [The fast track to Julia](https://cheatsheet.juliadocs.org/)
 
 "Julia is an open-source, multi-platform, high-level, high-performance programming language for technical computing.
- 
-Julia has an LLVM-based JIT compiler that allows it to match the performance of languages such as C and FORTRAN without the hassle of low-level code. Because the code is compiled on the fly you can run (bits of) code in a shell or REPL , which is part of the recommended workflow .
+  
+Julia has an LLVM-based JIT compiler that allows it to match the performance of languages such as C and FORTRAN without the hassle of low-level code. Because the code is compiled on the fly you can run (bits of) code in a shell or REPL, which is part of the recommended workflow.
 
 Julia is dynamically typed, provides multiple dispatch, and is designed for parallelism and distributed computation.
 
@@ -96,39 +96,38 @@ Julia has a built-in package manager."
 
 
 *open source*
-: - offene Entwicklung auf [GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia)
-- Implementierungen für alle gängigen Betriebssysteme
+: - open development on [GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia)
+- implementations for all common operating systems
 
 *high-performance programming language for technical computing*
-: - viele Funktionen für *scientific computing* eingebaut,
--  (bewusste) Ähnlichkeit zu Python, R und Matlab,
-- komplexe Berechnungen in wenigen Zeilen 
-- einfaches Interface zu anderen Sprachen wie C oder Python
+: - many functions for *scientific computing* built-in,
+- (intentional) similarity to Python, R and Matlab,
+- complex calculations in a few lines
+- simple interface to other languages like C or Python
 
 *a JIT compiler*
-: - interaktives Arbeiten möglich: `read-eval-print loop (REPL)` mit 
--  just-in-time (JIT) Compilation
-- dadurch Laufzeiten vergleichbar mit statischen Sprachen wie C/C++, Fortran oder Rust 
+: - interactive work possible: `read-eval-print loop (REPL)` with 
+- just-in-time (JIT) compilation
+- thereby runtimes comparable to static languages like C/C++, Fortran or Rust 
 
 *a built-in package manager*
-: - riesiges *ecosystem* an einfach installierbaren Paketen, z.B.
-        - [Mathematische Optimierung](https://jump.dev/)
+: - huge *ecosystem* of easily installable packages, e.g.
+        - [Mathematical Optimization](https://jump.dev/)
         - [Machine Learning](https://fluxml.ai/)
         - [Data Visualization](https://docs.makie.org/stable/)
-        - [Differentialgleichungen](https://docs.sciml.ai/DiffEqDocs/stable/)
-        - [Mathematische Modellierung](https://sciml.ai/)
+        - [Differential Equations](https://docs.sciml.ai/DiffEqDocs/stable/)
+        - [Mathematical Modeling](https://sciml.ai/)
 
 
 
 
 
-## Eine kleine Auswahl an Online-Material zu Julia {.unnumbered}
+## A Small Selection of Online Materials on Julia {.unnumbered}
 
-- [Dokumentation](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/) - die offizielle Dokumentation
+- [Documentation](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/) - the official documentation
 - [Cheat Sheet](https://cheatsheet.juliadocs.org/) - "a quick & dirty overview"
-- [Introducing Julia](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introducing_Julia)-- ein WikiBook
-- [The Julia Express](http://bogumilkaminski.pl/files/julia_express.pdf) - Kurzfassung, Julia auf 16 Seiten
-- [Think Julia](https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html) - Einführung in die Programmierung mit Julia als Sprache
-- Das [Julia Forum](https://discourse.julialang.org/)
-- Was fürs Auge: [Beispiele zum Julia-Grafikpaket `Makie`](https://beautiful.makie.org/)
-
+- [Introducing Julia](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introducing_Julia)-- a WikiBook
+- [The Julia Express](http://bogumilkaminski.pl/files/julia_express.pdf) - short version, Julia in 16 pages
+- [Think Julia](https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html) - introduction to programming with Julia as a language
+- The [Julia Forum](https://discourse.julialang.org/)
+- For the eyes: [Examples for the Julia graphics package `Makie`](https://beautiful.makie.org/)