A toy Mathematica interpreter in Haskell

Mathics is implementation of Mathematica (actually it is now called Wolfram language) using sympy, ply, and django.<p>It also provides jupyter kernel.<p>The original author was hired by Wolfram, but the project still lives on!<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathics.github.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathics.github.io</a><p>Maxima is older than Mathematica and written in LISP. One of its contributors has written MockMMA to implement Mathematica in LISP:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.eecs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;~fateman&#x2F;lisp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.eecs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;~fateman&#x2F;lisp&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;ve written a Mathematica clone twice before. This guy got there much faster ( I was writing in C++).<p>However both times I got the basic language going then realized it was the standard library that made Mathematica gold and abandoned it.<p>Kudos to him and it&#x27;s good work!

This proves, once again, what a world-class, unbeatable tool Haskell is for writing toy interpreters.

I&#x27;ve written a toy TeX interpreter&#x2F;macro-expander as my first &quot;large&quot; Haskell program. It really made me think hard about both Haskell and TeX. I think this is a great way to learn two languages at the same time if you already have experience.

It would be interesting to benchmark it against the real thing.

doesn&#x27;t this turn Mathematica into a scripting language for Haskell?