On Saturday, March 10, 2012, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 10 March 2012 13:53, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If you want a free open-source implementation of the language (without most >> of the mathematical commands) >> you can use the one I wrote in Lisp. Mock MMA.. >> >> It is not a simple language. One does not often start with a complicated >> language and add to it and make >> it simpler. >> >> RJF > > To be fair, Stephen Wolfram did not say he was gong to add anything to > the Mathematica language to make it the easiest language to learn. He > could attempt such a mission with better documentation, better editor, > free programming courses etc. > > But IMHO, Mathematica will never be the easiest language to learn.
I'm curious which useful computer languages you personally consider to be "relatively easy" to learn, at least compared to Mathematica. You may assume the learner is already proficient in some computer language. > I > don't believe any amount of tweaking the documentation, GUI or > anything else will achieve his aim. > > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
