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Introducing Tweet-a-Program

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Re: Introducing Tweet-a-Program

#4
I want to get excited about Wolfram and Mathematica again. All of their blog posts are rather informative great reads. But then I head over to the pricing page and am reminded of why I love open source tools.

Re: Introducing Tweet-a-Program

#5
post #4

I want to get excited about Wolfram and Mathematica again. All of their blog posts are rather informative great reads. But then I head over to the pricing page and am reminded of why I love open source tools.

I think that for the most part, you get what you pay for. Mathematica is expensive, but it is awesome. I'm not sure that it's easy enough to use for the price point they are asking, but it's definitely better than the free options.

Re: Introducing Tweet-a-Program

#8

using twitter as a compiler(as a service) is pretty cool

I think it would be more interesting if you could dynamically create twitter bots. Then you could create a functional language in which tweets were expressions. Then you build the functional tree for your program and then tweet to its root node to execute it.

Re: Introducing Tweet-a-Program

#9
post #4

I want to get excited about Wolfram and Mathematica again. All of their blog posts are rather informative great reads. But then I head over to the pricing page and am reminded of why I love open source tools.

Wolfram Online is only $15 per month now for individuals.

Re: Introducing Tweet-a-Program

#10
post #8

using twitter as a compiler(as a service) is pretty cool

I think it would be more interesting if you could dynamically create twitter bots. Then you could create a functional language in which tweets were expressions. Then you build the functional tree for your program and then tweet to its root node to execute it.

That's a really fun idea. You'd be able to see the execution of the sub-parts of the program by watching the sub-bots tweet results between themselves.
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