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• Jtsummers 13y ago
  Interesting. And after looking at Mathematica (the language) more this morning, I can see the influence of Lisp and other languages. I think my definition of "lisp variant" is stricter than others' definition. I wouldn't consider Rebol, TCL or Ruby "lisp variants", even though they both derive a lot of language concepts from the lisp family. So I can't really consider Mathematica a lisp variant either.
  • brandonbloom 13y ago
    Put it in any bucket you like, but don't ignore it. Mathematica is absolutely worth studying. If you've never used a general purpose term rewriting system before, you're missing out on some mind-altering stuff.
    • Jtsummers 13y ago
      I'm not ignoring it, I used it years ago in grad school, it was fantastic. It just has no relevance (as a tool) to my current work or sideprojects. My question was strictly about calling it a lisp variant.
  • tokipin 13y ago
    i think you're right that the "essense" is not lisp. Mathematica is more abstract than lisp, and it has lisp-like features built on top of it. that said, the analogy can be useful because things like "macros" are completely natural to the language: In[1]:= FullForm[a + b] Out[1]= Plus[a, b] In[2]:= a + b /. Plus -> Times Out[2]= a b