Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

[William James]

John W Kennedy wrote:

> Xah Lee wrote:
> > In lisp, python, perl, etc, you'll have 10 or so lines. In C or
> > Java, you'll have 50 or hundreds lines.
> 

> Java:
> 
> static float[] normal(final float[] x) {
>    float sum = 0.0f;
>    for (int i = 0; i < x.length; ++i) sum += x[i] * x[i];
>    final float divisor = (float) Math.sqrt(sum);
>    float[] a = new float[x.length];
>    for (int i = 0; i < x.length; ++i) a[i] = x[i]/divisor;
>    return a;
> }

"We don't need no stinkin' loops!"

SpiderMonkey Javascript:

function normal( ary )
{ div=Math.sqrt(ary.map(function(x) x*x).reduce(function(a,b) a+b))
  return ary.map(function(x) x/div)
}