I've used Mathematica for 20 years and I still think it's the most difficult programming language ever.
@sigfpe I tend to agree in many ways, but what is it for you that makes it so?
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@patrickc The mental switch from strict to lazy when I learnt Haskell was trivial compared to learning Mathematica evaluation order. -
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@patrickc Almost every function on that page is a patch to fix another function on that page that breaks something.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc And scope. Scope should not be a hard thing to master in a programming language.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/EvaluationControl.html … With v10 there's a whole new level of complexity with inactive objects.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@patrickc Eg. hard to make *data*. Everything wants to evaluate. So it's hard to work with expressions despite being it for symbolic algebraThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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