Re: Types in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg62218] Re: Types in Mathematica
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:28:21 -0500 (EST)
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I agree with Andrzej that that the hybrid nature of the Mathematica language is a great strength. It offers programmers (not all of whom are expert with Mathematica) a fall-back way to implement operations that they can't see how to do in a functional way. Often the loss of efficiency is not relevant in their application. Furthermore, when you use a language that follow a single paradigm (e.g. Java) there are always ideas that don't fit the paradigm and end up being implemented in a clumsy, confusing way - e.g. Java event processing (IMHO). David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
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- Types in Mathematica
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@globalsymmetry.com>
- Re: Types in Mathematica
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@globalsymmetry.com>
- Types in Mathematica