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Re: Wolfram Language

#71

Post by brudgers »

rlx0x wrote: post #52

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik "Stephen™ Wolfram™'s Introduction to the Wolfram™ Language" That Wolfram™ Language and the Wolfram™ Cloud is going to change the world forever, the language is so great because its Wolfram™ Symbolic and since it all just runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud its really fast. You can put all your financial data in the Wolfram™ and do things. You know they worked 30 years on this, and it…

That this is a top rated comment is fucking pathetic.

His name is on the door. Unlike the late beloved Steve Jobs, he does not afford himself the opportunity to blame others for product problems. It's a higher standard - one without "Hold it another way" copouts and buy our products to show your good taste values. He built his startip into a company that makes amazing products that can be used to really change the world because they help solve really hard problems in ways that scale. He's putting knowledge into the world not peddling caveat emptor planned obsolescence and digital whoopie cushions.

Now he's taken his life's work and is shipping it on the Raspberry Pi instead of taken a 30% cut of the creative output of developer and musicians.

That's the difference between what is rightfully called "great" and what is called so only insanely.

Re: Wolfram Language

#72

Post by [deleted] »

brudgers wrote: post #71
rlx0x wrote: post #52

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik "Stephen™ Wolfram™'s Introduction to the Wolfram™ Language" That Wolfram™ Language and the Wolfram™ Cloud is going to change the world forever, the language is so great because its Wolfram™ Symbolic and since it all just runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud its really fast. You can put all your financial data in the Wolfram™ and do things. You know they worked 30 years on this, and it…

That this is a top rated comment is fucking pathetic. His name is on the door. Unlike the late beloved Steve Jobs, he does not afford himself the opportunity to blame others for product problems. It's a higher standard - one without "Hold it another way" copouts and buy our products to show your good taste values. He built his startip into a company that makes amazing products that can be used to really change the wo…

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Re: Wolfram Language

#73

Post by programnature »

georgewfraser wrote: post #62

People who were at Caltech at the time have gone on record that Wolfram knew very little about compilers when he wrote Mathematica: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/f3b93140c2... which explains why the Mathematica language contains so many amateurish mistakes, like its bizarre implementation of scope and its wacky pseudo-macro system. Don't get me wrong, Mathematica is a great product, in particular…

Smug lisp weenie complains commercially successful system not implemented in lisp, news at 11.

The story isn't about Mathematica, its about SMP, which predated Mathematica by about 8 years. Wolfram was 20 at the time.

Back at Caltech, Rob Pike convinced Wolfram that C was the future and that was a good thing.

Re: Wolfram Language

#74

Post by programnature »

rlx0x wrote: post #52

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik "Stephen™ Wolfram™'s Introduction to the Wolfram™ Language" That Wolfram™ Language and the Wolfram™ Cloud is going to change the world forever, the language is so great because its Wolfram™ Symbolic and since it all just runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud its really fast. You can put all your financial data in the Wolfram™ and do things. You know they worked 30 years on this, and it…

If all you know is buzzwords, buzzwords are all you hear.

Personally I found the idea and explanation of knowledge-based computing where my attention went. Does your favorite language have knowledge about the world built into it?

Re: Wolfram Language

#76

Post by nswanberg »

brudgers wrote: post #71
rlx0x wrote: post #52

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik "Stephen™ Wolfram™'s Introduction to the Wolfram™ Language" That Wolfram™ Language and the Wolfram™ Cloud is going to change the world forever, the language is so great because its Wolfram™ Symbolic and since it all just runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud its really fast. You can put all your financial data in the Wolfram™ and do things. You know they worked 30 years on this, and it…

That this is a top rated comment is fucking pathetic. His name is on the door. Unlike the late beloved Steve Jobs, he does not afford himself the opportunity to blame others for product problems. It's a higher standard - one without "Hold it another way" copouts and buy our products to show your good taste values. He built his startip into a company that makes amazing products that can be used to really change the wo…

Don't worry about it. Every thread needs a kids' table, and in some threads they're just more prominent.

Re: Wolfram Language

#77

Post by verteu »

I'm glad to see this language has first-class hashtables (Association). Does it have any other data structures that Mathematica was lacking (e.g. trees)?

Re: Wolfram Language

#78

Post by jakobe »

brudgers wrote: post #71
rlx0x wrote: post #52

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik "Stephen™ Wolfram™'s Introduction to the Wolfram™ Language" That Wolfram™ Language and the Wolfram™ Cloud is going to change the world forever, the language is so great because its Wolfram™ Symbolic and since it all just runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud its really fast. You can put all your financial data in the Wolfram™ and do things. You know they worked 30 years on this, and it…

That this is a top rated comment is fucking pathetic. His name is on the door. Unlike the late beloved Steve Jobs, he does not afford himself the opportunity to blame others for product problems. It's a higher standard - one without "Hold it another way" copouts and buy our products to show your good taste values. He built his startip into a company that makes amazing products that can be used to really change the wo…

No need to shit on Steve Jobs in order to praise Steven Wolfram. Both are good businessmen that built great products and successful companies. And they had great respect for one another.

And it's not like Wolfram is giving stuff away for free. Have you seen how much a Mathematica license costs? I loved using Mathematica at my university, but now I just can't afford a license anymore.

Re: Wolfram Language

#79

Post by nswanberg »

GregBuchholz wrote: post #75

Can anyone recommend a good dead-tree book on Mathematica?

Wolfram's The Mathematica Book is a great reference and has some good examples for learning Mathematica (plus, used editions are really cheap: http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=mathematica+book) You can look at the contents online to see if it clicks with you: http://reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v5/

Mathematica Cookbook is also a nice reference. The book is much less systematic, but provides code that solves more realistic problems than the Mathematica documentation.

Re: Wolfram Language

#80

Post by GregBuchholz »

nswanberg wrote: post #79
GregBuchholz wrote: post #75

Can anyone recommend a good dead-tree book on Mathematica?

Wolfram's The Mathematica Book is a great reference and has some good examples for learning Mathematica (plus, used editions are really cheap: http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=mathematica+book ) You can look at the contents online to see if it clicks with you: http://reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v5/ Mathematica Cookbook is also a nice reference. The book is much less systematic, but provides code that solves m…

Thanks. Is the language pretty stable, but the libraries are what mostly changes between Mathematica releases? Or is there much obsolete stuff in version 5 that's not present in version 9 or 10?
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