RomanNumerals.jl

Seeing this gave me the idea to use Julia's metaprogramming to create a package for this... and of course someone has already done it: https://github.com/anthonyclays/RomanNumerals.jl Amazingly, R actually seems to support Roman numerals natively: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/rom... Limited numerical range, but seems to have full support for treating them as normal numbers! The Wolfram Language has some support for converting to and from Roman numerals [1], and Common Lisp's `format` takes a `@R` modifier to print a number as its Roman numeral [2]. [1] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RomanNumeral.html [2] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/22_c.h...

I feel like people are perhaps a bit overly negative about the state of Julia's packages. Compared to other early-stage languages, I'd say our package ecosystem is vibrant and full of fantastic packages. Naturally perhaps they are more math/scientific focussed, so if you are looking for cutting-edge packages for web dev you won't find them yet (although there are packages!). See http://pkg.julialang.org/pulse.html, for example. We have over 470 packages in total that are registered, and on Julia 0.3 we have over 300 packages with tests that pass - and we run the tests in all registered packages every night. Some of my favorite packages (that I didn't make, of course :D) would include https://github.com/JuliaStats/Distributions.jl https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl https://github.com/pluskid/Mocha.jl (deep learning) https://github.