Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

[toby]

On Dec 1, 5:24 am, budden <budde... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mathematica is a great language, but:
> 1. it is too slow
> 2. It is often hard to read
> 3. It gives sence to every keystroke. You press escape by occasion and
> it goes in a code as a new
> symbol, w/o error. Nasty.
> 3. I know 5-th version. It does not allow to track the source as SLIME
> does. This feature as absolutely
> necessary for serious development

Worst of all, it's proprietary, which makes it next to useless. Money
corrupts.

>
> So, in fact, Mathematica do not scale well IMO.