it isn't magic, but simply the fact that the language is "dynamically typed" (or more accurately, that the whole system works symbolically). the "magic" is due

it isn't magic, but simply the fact that the language is "dynamically typed" (or more accurately, that the whole system works symbolically). the "magic" is due to its UI compositing system using the same exact semantics as the rest of the language (or rather, it is the same language). this makes graphics-making and UI-making super easy. have a look at the Mathematica stack exchange[1] site to see more code. there isn't any contrivance there. [1] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics?sort=votes http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphi...