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Mathematica is a very powerful Lisp-based programming language(without user-visible s-expressions). It is (to an extent) designed for numerical/symbolic math; t
by likpok 18y ago
Mathematica is a very powerful Lisp-based programming language(without user-visible s-expressions). It is (to an extent) designed for numerical/symbolic math; there are a lot of libraries available for that.
However, they've added a lot of other libraries, for things like image processing, etc.
It is a very powerful system, however somewhat limited by poor market penetration (nothing else uses it, so only people with Mathematica could use it).
- gaius 18y agoThere's a free Mathematica player that lets you run but not edit.
- pfedor 18y agoA friend of mine who's a physicist claims that he's so used to Mathematica that he uses it for everyday scripting tasks, the way other people use Tcl or Perl.
- ph0rque 18y agoI came across a web page made in mathematica once...
- cturner 18y agoYeah - I met a chap at an openbase conference in 2005 that was using it for professional web-application development. I've been intrigued by the idea ever since. I'd be interested to hear more stories from people who really leverage it like this.
- dreeves 18y agoI use mathematica for general scripting tasks. It takes a little hackery to do things like use it in a pipeline and such: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/mash/mash.pl http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/mash/mash.pl
- gaius 18y agoAll Wolfram's own web stuff is done in Mathematica.