Re: Mathematica and Lisp
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- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 03:31:09 -0400 (EDT)
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I don't think studying Lisp is necessary unless you are using lisp
through Run[].
Study Mathematica Book is all.
my bookmark senses say...
avoid Haskell: it's not mature, not much used, or well laid out.
Standard ML is worth a review abstract language just as much as Lisp
is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML
Finally. Mathematica's inner C language, smp, is worth a quick
review. Look into Mathematica's history. They used X windows,
Postscript, ideas and abilities from many languages and gui toolkits.
Amazing how it all came together. But smp drives the language part.