On 7 March 2012 05:34, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> writes: >> Well, I think Wolfram Research have a VERY long way to go before >> Mathematica is the easiest to learn language. > > I don't know about that. Mathematica is not extremely difficult.
I did not say it is "extreamly difficult", but I don't believe it will ever be the easiest language to learn. > It's > kind of lisp-like but with a lot of syntactic sugar. If you want, you > can more or less write BASIC-style code in Mathematica. Few outside computer science students learn lisp. If you write Mathematica more or less like BASIC, performance will suffer terribly. Using loops (For, While etc) in Mathematica is defintely not a good idea. I would not say you have learnt Mathematica if you write like BASIC. > The Mathematica > frontend's autoindentation and syntax highlighting gives a learner a lot > of helpful cues. True. > It might not be as easy as Python, but it's definitely > among the easier languages I've seen. I don't feel that. Perhaps it's because I'm not a mathematican. > -Keshav Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
