[plt-scheme] Re: DrScheme as alternative to Matlab

From: Arthur Nunes-Harwit (anh at cs.rit.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 12 09:55:06 EDT 2009

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Jason wrote:

> ...and isn't it also true that lisp/scheme is a good place for
> symbolic algebra?

   Matlab was designed to do floating point calculations.  Any symbolic 
algebra was an afterthought.

-Arthur



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