Re:Forscape – A Language and Editor for Scientific Computation
by 7thaccount on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:46PM
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Upvoted. I have a love/hate relationship with Mathematica, but it is so far ahead of its time in a lot of ways. It's like Jupyter Notebooks dialed up by 100 and fully integrated with everything from linear algebra to calculus to graphics to graph theory to plotting to optimization and machine learning so on. I just find the functional like language (a term rewriting system) to be hard to grasp at times and it being a commercial product means it will eventually lose out in some ways.
Re:Forscape – A Language and Editor for Scientific Computation
by seanhunter on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @01:55PM
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Yes. And Theodore Grey actually invented the notebook UX I believe for Mathematica around 2000-ish or maybe a bit before. Jupyter notebook came after that.
Re:Forscape – A Language and Editor for Scientific Computation
by 7thaccount on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @02:04PM
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Yeah I understand Mathematica notebooks came first. I meant for my comment to allude to that, but when re-reading see I forgot to mention it. Thanks for adding context. I assumed Nathematica's notebook UI was even older than that.
Re:Forscape – A Language and Editor for Scientific Computation
by Iwan-Zotow on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @05:39PM
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> it's sadly non-free.
you could get Wolfram engine for free (use your home e-mail address) which is basically text io single seat Mathematica.
Then you download WLJS notebook interface and voila, you all set...
One particularly nice thing about it is that it's completely optional sugar over a lispy "FullForm" syntax, and it's easy to convert between the two.
I'd encourage everyone to play with it, but it's sadly non-free.