Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

Jon Harrop:

Is so wide cross-posting positive?

> 4. Static type checking.<

This is a Python newsgroup, you will find less lovers of static typing
here :-)


>Overall, Mathematica is a whopping 700,000 times slower!<

Your Mathematica code is cute, but surely Mathematica isn't designed
for that kind of "programing". It's more for symbolic processing or to
perform few operations in a very flexible way, so it's more for
research and *exploration* and visualization; while more normal
programming languages are more to compute a lot of things when you
already know what you are doing.


>  http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/

You can write versions for Python, Psyco, ShedSkin, too, if you want.

Bye,
bearophile