On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Robert Dodier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ondrej Certik wrote: > >> So what things do they have wrong? So that we can learn from it. > > * all functions are capitalized > > * BumpyCaseIsHardToRead > > * square brackets for function arguments > > * two square brackets for subscripts > > * squiggly braces for lists > > * sets and matrices not distinguished from lists > > * lack of syntax in programming constructs > > There's really nothing to recommend any of this.
Ah, this, but all of those are fixed by Python. I thought you mean some design principle. Yes, those are things why I wrote in some other thread that programming in mathematica is not fun (for me), but the design of mathematica (at least what I understood so far), I must say, is fun for me and I want to have it, just in Python. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
