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- From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: Re: MAPLE resources reccomendation
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- Subject: Re: Serious Programming (was: Re: MAPLE resources reccomendation)
- From: Steve Christensen, steve@physics.unc.edu
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:30:11 GMT
- In article <1992Nov18.043011.28800@samba.oit.unc.edu> Steve Christensen,
- steve@physics.unc.edu writes:
- ==============================
-
- i'll say amen to everything Steve just said and add the same comment
- about doing functional programming in mathemtica as opposed to other math
- systems (as steve calls them).
-
- in fact, its probably time to quit b-s'ing about 'my language is better
- than yours' and do a real comparision of codes.
-
- in a separate posting that i'll compose as soon as i walk my dog and
- which i will call
- " comparing programming in cas's:" i'll put in a number of Mathematica
- programs that i have either written or seen on the net or in books that
- seem to use functional things like using higher-order functions, pattern
- matching, rewrite rules and list manipulation.
-
- i would like others who are proficient in other cas languages like maple
- or axiom or macsyma or reduce to rewrite these programs in their
- language (richard fateman can send in LISP code as well) and send them
- to me.
-
- i also welcome functional style code from anyone and will try to rewrite
- them in Mathematica. i also welcome code in mathematica from other [eg.,
-
- lets stick to 'straight' programming; ie., no use of graphics, algebraic
- manipulation, numerics or mathematical functions so that we can really
- stay focused on this one aspect of programming.
-
- we can all judge elegance ourselves ("in gustibus non disputandum" as
- i've learned from the mathemticaconference competitions).
-
- i will also run the maple code and mathematica code on my mac IIfx to
- give timing results. (i can also do ALJBAR on my mac and i can run both
- mathematica and axiom on a IBM Risc 6000 here).
-
- i will keep this material as sort of an FAQ type document and update it
- and post it periodically so people can compare various cas's programming
- languages.
-
- this could be very informative and also fun.
-