The Array Cast – A podcast about the array programming languages

Re:The Array Cast – A podcast about the array programming la... by rscho on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:51AM (#27230920)

Geocar put in the effort of trying to make you see. But you are prejudiced with the equivalent of those who spite Lisp because of parentheses.

If you want a "more readable" array language, take a look at Nial.

PS: qualifying the Wolfram language (Mathematica) as obscure is a really, really myopic view of the programming world.

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Re:The Array Cast – A podcast about the array programming la... by jiggawatts on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:12PM (#27240623)

I've never seen anyone use Mathematica outside of academia other than myself. It also occupies a slightly unique corner of the language design landscape. One that I like!

I wish that Mathematica was modernised and made into a proper, compiled (or at least JIT-ed), heavyweight language with all the trimmings. A proper IDE, debugger, tracing tools, etc... The current version is a bit like Visual Basic -- a very old language that had grown past its original design capabilities and now needs a revamp. A bit like how VB.NET replaced VB, and was superseded in practice by C# on dotnet core.

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