Re: Re: Beginner: List Indexing and Assignment
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- Subject: [mg94546] Re: [mg94515] Re: Beginner: List Indexing and Assignment
- From: C Rose <cjr.list.alias.1 at me.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:32:50 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Albert Thanks for your considered reply to my question. > All in all for this very special task the other system wins in many > respects, but of course there are many other tasks, where the outcome > will be (very) different. It really depends on what you plan to do > and of course how you think about your problems and how you > formulate possible solutions. I think it's natural for one to think about any new system in terms of familiar ones. Most of my programs in the other system make fairly heavy use of functional programming and anonymous functions, so this aspect of Mathematica is very appealing (especially given that Mathematica offers much richer support for this style of programming). I've also programmed using OCaml---albeit at a hobbyist level---which has excellent support for pattern matching, so again, this style of programming is quite attractive. > If operations on numerical matrices is all you are doing, all you > will be doing in the future and all you can think of > (that should by no means be interpreted that I suggest you > couldn't :-)), a move to Mathematica will probably not pay off... Most of my work involves working with image and/or signal data and is consequently numerical in nature. However, Mathematica appears to offer significant benefits in non-numerical areas that are increasingly vital (such as being able to connect to a remote kernel running on a powerful machine; the fact that Mathematica is largely a single product that does not need numerous 'add-ons' to be licensed; etc.). I'm also keen to experiment with model-fitting in Mathematica, given that Mathematica can presumably symbolically differentiate the objective function. It certainly seems worth evaluating. Thanks again for your help. Chris
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- Re: Beginner: List Indexing and Assignment
- From: Albert Retey <awnl@gmx-topmail.de>
- Re: Beginner: List Indexing and Assignment