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Is the Wolfram Programming Language/Mathematica still the most concise language? https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/11/which-programming-language-is-the-

• luadigest 7y ago
  They need to benchmark Lua. Lua is ridiculously concise when it comes to implementing algorithms. https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Lua https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Lua
  • naniwaduni 7y ago
    It's not, though? For most tasks not solved by standard library, Lua is going to fall somewhere between JS and Ruby.
• krackers 7y ago
  Wolfram Language has an absolutely huge "standard library" though which probably accounts for some of this.
  • georgewsinger 7y ago
    Yes, but that's explicitly part of Wolfram's design philosophy: embed as much computational knowledge as possible into the core language.
• kccqzy 7y ago
  I would believe so. Things like dynamic programming (memoization) takes only a few characters, not to mention a wealth of facilities already built in. It's what I use for prototyping math-y software. If you discount its standard library however, I think it might not necessarily beat APL.