On 03/11/12 05:00 PM, Volker Braun wrote:
On Saturday, March 10, 2012 3:59:24 PM UTC-5, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
HARD
C++, Mathematica
The Mathematica language is just difficult because its ugly and uses weird
operators (hello /. operator). But in terms of difficulty its a far cry
from C++ which is really three totally different Turing-complete languages
(preprocessor, C++, templates) in one with funky interactions between them.
Its definitely easier to become proficient with Mathematica than C++. Of
course C++ will teach you much more about programming than Mathematica.
I'm personally not going to get drawn into arguments about what languages are
harder and for what reasons. Perhaps I should not have even answered William's
question, or posted that list.
But I still maintain that Stephen Wolfram will never definitively make
Mathematica the world's easiest to learn language.
I take exception to what he said:
"It'll probably be related to my goal in the next year or two of making
Mathematica definitively the world's easiest to learn language..."
dave
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