Comment on Microsoft releases F# under Apache 2.0 licenseparentComments−chc15yI think the pitch is that F# is halfway to Matlab without losing general programming power — a best of both worlds kind of thing.−sliverstorm15yYeah, Matlab seems to be pretty useless if you want to do anything besides pure math.I mean, that's really all computers are at the core- math- but you know what I mean.−Raphael15yI'd say computers are more applied math than pure math−gaius15yMathematica is more oriented towards pure maths (e.g. symbolic maniplation) and MATLAB more towards applied (numerical methods).−konad15yAt their core, computers are boolean logic, not arithmetic. Ironically, math is one of the things they are bad at, they are just quick.
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I think the pitch is that F# is halfway to Matlab without losing general programming power — a best of both worlds kind of thing.
Yeah, Matlab seems to be pretty useless if you want to do anything besides pure math.
I mean, that's really all computers are at the core- math- but you know what I mean.
I'd say computers are more applied math than pure math
Mathematica is more oriented towards pure maths (e.g. symbolic maniplation) and MATLAB more towards applied (numerical methods).
At their core, computers are boolean logic, not arithmetic. Ironically, math is one of the things they are bad at, they are just quick.