4 Mar
2015
4 Mar
'15
9:45 a.m.
On Mar 4, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Mouse <mouse at
rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
I've been using Mathematica for years. It's an extremely powerful tool.
I especially like the whole notion of notebooks. I've also used MatLab
which also falls somewhat into that category. MatLab is is really optimized
around vectors and arrays.
> Perhaps I'm just revealing the paucity of
the languages I know [...]
> 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.
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 - on either its status
as a language or its fit to my descriptive sketch. But it wouldn't
surprise me if you're right. 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, [...]
It's not a criticism of the language, and it's a criticism of the
implementation for only my own purposes, but it still carries the price
of running closed-source code, which is too high for me. (Note that
this is a personal judgement call. Others, obviously, make that
tradeoff differently.)