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Re: Mathematica and Lisp
Posted:
Feb 23, 2013 11:31 PM
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Hey, what a useless discussion for different items:
Mathematica is complex software which uses Lisp like language as a
base system. It is useless to open a Lisp interpreter and to try to
emulate Mathematica, because you need 10^10 lines of code to provide
Mathematica like results.
Nobody tries to write his own Lisp modules to generate a system, that
behaves like AutoCad (which uses AutoLisp...)...
So why is such a nonsense discussed here for some weeks askes
Peter
2013/2/23 David Bailey <dave@removedbailey.co.uk>:
> On 22/02/2013 06:05, Richard Fateman wrote:
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>> Anyway, getting back to Mathematica and Lisp...
>> Since Lisp programs tend to be short, there are fewer opportunities
>> for bugs. Mathematica programs can be short too, but the irregular
>> syntax makes them harder to read. See djmpark's comment about FullForm
>> below. Lisp is like FullForm all the time.
>>
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> Yes Lisp is rather like FullForm - but who in their right mind would
> write all their Mathematica code in FullForm!
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> The beauty of FullForm, is that you can render an expression into this
> form to resolve any misconceptions you may have about operator
> precedences etc.
>
> Since practically nobody writes all their Mathematica code in FullForm,
> it follows, does it not, that they must find Mathematica code
> significantly (I would say massively) more readable than Lisp!
>
> David Bailey
> http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
>
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