Of interest:
a blog post from Wolfram Research:
http://blog.wolfram.com/2008/04/29/today-we-broke-the-bernoulli-record-from-=
the-analytical-engine-to-mathematica/
this illustrates, partially, the power of having a full set of
mathematical functions build in, as part of the language.
from the perspective in the evolution of computer languages, one
characteristics is that the language becomes easier to use with more
power. e.g., assembly-like, C, Fortran, to C++, Java, to awk, bash,
then Perl, Python, and tcl, PHP, VisualBasic, Javascript, NewLisp, and
Mathematica.
One way to put a language in a evolution class, is simply to think of
how many lines of code is typical to do one thing. Another way to
think of this is, what level of learning a language requires its user
to use it.
We could, for example, say that all languages in year 2020, will all
have full mathematcial functions build in.
See also:
What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/what_is_expresiveness.html
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