Looks like an interesting halfway house between a text editor and a full-blown CAS like Mathematica (since I have a license, that's what I use as a scratchpad for this kind of thing). It also seems to overlap with Soulver, which is my go-to calculator on iOS.
Cleverly, Calca appears to go a bit further than even MMA by back-filling changed definitions, almost like functional reactive programming. This is neat and something I've wanted to see for a long time.
I'll be buying once I get home to my iPad, but I really want to see the Mac OS version!
Hi I'm the author. I took a lot of inspiration from Soulver. I basically wanted a smarter Soulver with more programming constructs and better treatment of undefined variables. Hope you like it and OS X version will be out in a couple weeks.
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Looks like an interesting halfway house between a text editor and a full-blown CAS like Mathematica (since I have a license, that's what I use as a scratchpad for this kind of thing). It also seems to overlap with Soulver, which is my go-to calculator on iOS.
Cleverly, Calca appears to go a bit further than even MMA by back-filling changed definitions, almost like functional reactive programming. This is neat and something I've wanted to see for a long time.
I'll be buying once I get home to my iPad, but I really want to see the Mac OS version!
Hi I'm the author. I took a lot of inspiration from Soulver. I basically wanted a smarter Soulver with more programming constructs and better treatment of undefined variables. Hope you like it and OS X version will be out in a couple weeks.
I do. I've had a chance to play with it on my iphone and I'm impressed: it does a lot more than I expected it to.
I'll definitely be buying your OSX version. Have you settled on a price yet?
I continue to be baffled as to why black-box modules like this aren't more used by programmers. Code is quick to write, but it obscures structure.
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