4 Mar
2015
4 Mar
'15
8:39 a.m.
On Mar 3, 2015, at 4:00 PM, Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:
Perhaps I'm just revealing the paucity of the
languages I know, but it
does to me - in particular, it's one of the very few languages I know
in which arrays are first-class objects, and the only one I know with a
reasonably rich set of operators tuned for operating on arrays.
Mouse,
one other, which you may or may not classify as a ?language?, is Mathematica.
I hesitate a little to recommend it, because for most of its history, the price of entry
has been pretty high, but at the moment it?s a free download for Raspbian on Raspberry Pi,
which puts it in the $50 US or so range, depending on what cables, power supplies, etc.
you need to buy and assuming you already have monitor, KB, and mouse and can supply
ethernet connection.
I do recognize also that the language has a pretty steep learning curve.
This is a reasonable description of the language and its place within programming
styles.
http://www.mathprogramming-intro.org/book/node66.html
As you can maybe guess, I?m a fan and user, but not otherwise connected.
- Mark