"The Wolfram Cloud combines a state-of-the-art notebook interface with the world's most productive programming language"
Quite the statement there, does anyone here have more info on this claim?
Quite the statement there, does anyone here have more info on this claim?
The language itself has its quirks, like any 30 year old language would, but you can do a lot with a little if you know what you're doing. It's similar to Lisp in that way.
The downside is that once you need to go beyond the "standard library" things are a lot more sparse, but they've been working to make it easier to get 3rd party functionality.
It's the kind of language that if it was free 15 years ago would probably be all over the place today.
The Stackoverflow thread had a few other interesting ideas beyond discarding the notebooks entirely.
There's something really, really powerful about good interactive tools and learning math. I'm convinced my success in subjects like calculus and diff. eq. were driven by toying with programs like Mathematica.
Anyway, I still find myself reaching for it occasionally. I recently used Mathematica for some FFXIV raid group statistics. Once you get accustomed to it, it's incredible how productive you can be at solving specific problems. "Nuclear reactor included" is a great turn of phrase (from above).