We did half C/C++ and half Mathematica in parallel. For the project you needed to build a prototype in Mathematica and then implement it fully in C++ using a cr

We did half C/C++ and half Mathematica in parallel. For the project you needed to build a prototype in Mathematica and then implement it fully in C++ using a cross platform gui toolkit (Glockenspiel - this was quite some time ago). It seemed to work - for a functional language Mathematica was also fairly practical.