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>(9) Haskell Eats Circular Definitions for Breakfast It's recursive , not circular, definition. A circular definition never ends while a recursive one does.
I like mathematica for stream-of-consciousness type stuff. Personal notes rather than something I'd publish. I can code up some functions, try a few things, show the important results, and talk about it with typeset equations all in the same printable page. Latex input would be nicer, but it's not terrible once you learn some of the keyboard shortcuts. Matlab seems an odd thing to ignore. It's pretty good for doing m…
Actually, the FFI story in Haskell is pretty neat. In the past I've written Haskell plugins which interface to a C api for commercial, closed-source software which isn't a million miles from crazy hydrodynamics code. The idea of walling off statefulness behind a well-defined FFI interface and going to town on the functional side is nice. I certainly found it easier to make progress with GHC than with OCaml.