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"Having been rescued from the clutches of object-orientation by early exposure to Mathematica" I kind of laughed at this line, because this seems like a situat
by nmrm2 11y ago
"Having been rescued from the clutches of object-orientation by early exposure to Mathematica"
I kind of laughed at this line, because this seems like a situation where the author came to the correct conclusion for all the wrong reasons.
Maybe things have changed, but the Mathematica programming language never struck me as useful for anything over a couple thousand lines.
edit: this is completely beside the purpose and message of this article, but it's worth noting that modularity is a pretty significant design criteria that none of these languages have a particularly strong story about.
- clementine 11y agoMathematica itself and Wolfram | Alpha have quite substantial code-bases written in Mathematica (now the Wolfram Language). Also, there was an article recently about probabilistic programming with WL: http://www.mathematica-journal.com/data/uploads/2013/11/Cassel.pdf http://www.mathematica-journal.com/data/uploads/2013/11/Cass... My guess is that WL would be an interesting and powerful starting point for probabilistic programming at some point down the line (if not already).