The basic language is the easy bit. I've gotten the itch and written a sort-of-mathematica interpreter twice now.
Each time I've gotten to the point where I can do basic derivatives/integrals/polynomials/etc and realized the real power is in the huge library (and brain trust behind that library) available to you.
It really is quite enlightening to come back to other languages. It feels like you're going back to tin can and string communications.
I am incredibly excited about the improvements for operations research markov chains and queueing, as well as timeseries. These will simplify my code hugely, better yet speed up work.
Each time I've gotten to the point where I can do basic derivatives/integrals/polynomials/etc and realized the real power is in the huge library (and brain trust behind that library) available to you.
It really is quite enlightening to come back to other languages. It feels like you're going back to tin can and string communications.
I am incredibly excited about the improvements for operations research markov chains and queueing, as well as timeseries. These will simplify my code hugely, better yet speed up work.