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/ And on this page, there are sections where Mathematica is compared to programing langs, such as C, C++, Java, and research langs Lisp, ML, ..., and scripting langs Python, Perl, Ruby... See: http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/content/ProgrammingLanguages.html http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/content/ResearchLanguages.html http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/content/ScriptingLanguages.html Note: I'm not affliated with Wolfram Research Inc. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
