7 Mar
2015
7 Mar
'15
9:05 p.m.
On 06/03/15 9:40 AM, Mouse wrote:
I've been using Mathematica for years. [...] I've also used MatLab
which also falls somewhat into that category. MatLab is is really
optimized around vectors and arrays.
That might be more similar to APL, then.
This has been rattling around in my mind for a little while now and I
think one reason I didn't think of things like Mathematica or Matlab is
that they're single-implementation. ...
It certainly existed on SPARC, though... Mathematica was very widely
ported because of the era it was born in - it supported just about every
serious platform of the 1980s - I remember seeing price lists with maybe
50 different ports, everything from SPARC to Mac to Cray (at the time I
used it on Mac 68K and I have a license for NeXT).
Wolfram's pathologically proprietorial mentality doesn't support the
spirit of openness that progress and science require; a tragedy when so
many have sleepwalked into relying on his black-box tools ...
--Toby
one other,
which you may or may not classify as a ?language?, is
Mathematica.
I don't know enough about it to offer an opinion [...]
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