Noqsi
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Re: Mathematica and Lisp
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Feb 26, 2013 1:09 AM
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On Saturday, February 23, 2013 9:31:47 PM UTC-7, Peter Klamser wrote:
> Mathematica is complex software which uses Lisp like language as a
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> base system.
Except that the resemblance is superficial. Mathematica's expression evaluator is very different from a Lisp evaluator.
> It is useless to open a Lisp interpreter and to try to
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> emulate Mathematica, because you need 10^10 lines of code to provide
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> Mathematica like results.
Early versions of Mathematica were rather small: I remember that the upgrade to version 2 came on two floppies. For my purposes, even version 1 was more effective than the best-known Lisp-based system (I had used that previously).
Of course, any software that's around for decades grows. C was first developed on minicomputers with a few MB of disk, but these days you need >1 GB of free space to compile gcc.
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