I have always found Wolfram's lack of a function analogous to np.empty in numpy of malloc in C extremely irritating, as I often want to assign a buffer list for later reference. I usually just end up assigning a constant array of zeroes out of laziness to do this. (my use cases are a bit niche and so I understand why its not included in a convenient way) I still really like Mathematica though for its speed and convenience, I just find it hard to scale up routines into full programs and so am often left with the difficult question of when to abandon mathematica and move to a more standard programming language.
I do think Wolfram is moving in a good direction towards having the Wolfram Language considered an alternative to traditional languages like C or Python. The new cloud offerings are a good step, as many REST APIs are genuinely just computations. The Application Server and Data Drop services are quite intriguing. The ExternalSession collection of functions also seem promising for corner cases where the Wolfram Language is not optimal. Fingers crossed! I do find myself using Mathematica more and Python less these days which is a good trend...
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This is really informative....no argument there.
Great video. Would like more in depth description about "anonymous functions"
We'll definitely make a lesson on anonymous (or pure) functions.
Great video! Thank you for the effort you put into it!
Excellent info. Hope more of these follow!
is there any idea on making videos on julia programming language !?
or... Prime@Range@10 or... Prime~Array~10
There are so many nice tricks, too!
10//Range//Prime
I have always found Wolfram's lack of a function analogous to np.empty in numpy of malloc in C extremely irritating, as I often want to assign a buffer list for later reference.
I usually just end up assigning a constant array of zeroes out of laziness to do this.
(my use cases are a bit niche and so I understand why its not included in a convenient way)
I still really like Mathematica though for its speed and convenience, I just find it hard to scale up routines into full programs and so am often left with the difficult question of when to abandon mathematica and move to a more standard programming language.
I do think Wolfram is moving in a good direction towards having the Wolfram Language considered an alternative to traditional languages like C or Python. The new cloud offerings are a good step, as many REST APIs are genuinely just computations. The Application Server and Data Drop services are quite intriguing. The ExternalSession collection of functions also seem promising for corner cases where the Wolfram Language is not optimal. Fingers crossed! I do find myself using Mathematica more and Python less these days which is a good trend...
Grande abraço do 🇧🇷
you didn't even touch the array function 😑.