Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 3 edition January 6, 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 020185449X
ISBN-13: 978-0201854497
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Book Description
This revised and expanded edition of the standard reference on programming in Mathematica addresses all the new features in the latest Version 3 of the software. The support for developing larger applications has been improved, and the book now discusses the software engineering issues related to writing and using larger programs in Mathematica. As before, Roman Maeder, one of the original authors of the Mathematica system, explains how to take advantage of its powerful built-in programming language.
Book Info
This revised and expanded edition of the standard reference on programming addresses all the new features in the latest Version 3 of the software. Discusses the software engineering issues related to writing and using larger programs in Mathematica. Paper.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I read 2nd edition of the book. "Programming in Mathematica" (PIM) is certainly a classic work (in programming style) for writing Mathematica packages. I also think it as a perfect example of literate programming in Mathematica, if you are trying literate programming in Mathematica. The literate programming style encourages writing explanation explicitly with the computer code so that both get pretty-printed and become human friendly. PIM is exactly such a perfect example. Nearly each Mathematica code piece in the book was clearly and elegantly explained. I noticed that Silvio Levy commented at the back of 3rd Edition of PIM. Silvio Levy is one of the creators of CWEB, a literate programming tool for C language. Wondering if this book also satisfies his taste of literate programming.
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