Jason Grout wrote: > Mike Hansen wrote: >> Of all the code I've read in lots of different languages, I think code >> written for Mathematica has been the least transparent. > > I guess I've always loved functional languages, so the simple core > principles appealed to me right away.
See a thread from some time ago: "Why Mathematica is not my language of choice". I do not like functional programming languages.This not withstanding I learned a lot from the lectures on lambda calculus in the early sixties from Dirk van Dalen. And I'm in good company: the originator of Python Guido van Rossum. Python knows some functional constructs, but in the future there will be less. In Python 3k there will be still something like map(), but other "goodies" will be gone. Jaap --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@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-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
