On 04/25/12 01:51 AM, rjf wrote:
Someone should tell the survey people that "it's" is not the possessive
form of it. "It's" is a contraction for "it is". The possessive is
"its".
If you want a slightly more informative comparison, try common lisp vs
python.
Why is that any more informati
Hi!
On 2012-04-25, rjf wrote:
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> Crowdsourcing on opinions of programming languages seems like a pretty
> poor way of garnering information other than uncalibrated, uh, opinions.
+1
I went to that page and
On 04/24/12 06:21 PM, Keshav Kini wrote:
I find it a little bizarre that almost 40% of respondents consider
Python better at symbolic manipulation than Mathematica.Mathematica is
practically built for symbolic manipulation, and in Sage a lot of hard
work has gone into pynac because plain Python
On 04/24/12 06:21 PM, Keshav Kini wrote:
Jason Grout writes:
Notice that the ratings are most dissimilar from Python (see bottom of
page)! Indeed, it is very interesting to look at the comparison page:
http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/mathematica/python
I find it a little bizar
Someone should tell the survey people that "it's" is not the possessive
form of it. "It's" is a contraction for "it is". The possessive is
"its".
If you want a slightly more informative comparison, try common lisp vs
python.
Crowdsourcing on opinions of programming languages seems like a
Jason Grout writes:
> Notice that the ratings are most dissimilar from Python (see bottom of
> page)! Indeed, it is very interesting to look at the comparison page:
>
> http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/mathematica/python
I find it a little bizarre that almost 40% of respondents cons
