Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

[Xah Lee]

On Nov 30, 7:30 pm, Xah Lee <xah... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wolfram Research's Mathematica Version 7 has just been released.
>
> See: http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html
>
> Among it's marketing material, it has a section on how mathematica
> compares to competitors. http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/

Stephen Wolfram has a blog entry about Mathematica 7. Quite amazing:

http://blog.wolfram.com/2008/11/18/surprise-mathematica-70-released-today/

Mathematica today in comparsion to all other existing langs, can be
perhaps compared to how lisp was to other langs in the say 1980s:
Quite far beyond all.

Seeing how lispers today still talking about how to do basic list
processing with its unusable cons, and how they get giddy with 1980's
macros (as opposed to full term rewriting), and still lack pattern
matching, one feels kinda sad.

see also:

• Fundamental Problems of Lisp
  http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/lisp_problems.html

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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