Hotdog
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Joined: 07 May 2003
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Location: Napier, New Zealand
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 Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:22 am Post subject: Too much techno babble? |
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This from another IT forum I help with:
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Mathematica (an advanced and expensive symbolic and numerical mathematics package) is interesting - you can program functionally, procedurally, or logically (Prolog-like) or a bizare mixture of the above. It also has whole new failure modes not present in other languages - e.g. if you typo the name of a function, it will assume the error is some anonymous function which it doesn't know how to evaluate, and start manipulating it symbolically. Typically this leads to very long run time followed output of a formula a few meg long.
I've used about 20 languages at least to the point of writing a 10+ line program. I suspect this isn't unusual for programmers who've been around for a while. (I started on BASIC about 25 years ago.) |
Hmmm. I understand it LOTS yeah! LOL
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