14 Aug
2014
14 Aug
'14
6:09 p.m.
You may be interested in a 2002 Usenet post by Kent M Pitman, in which he tells part of the early history of the Mathematica syntax. http://www.ymeme.com/why-wolfram-(mathematica)-did-not-use-lisp.html Jeff On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Is it just my imagination, or is Mathematica syntax between 5 and 100 times as clunky as it needs to be?
Sometimes I feel it's like programming with Cobol^Cobol.
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