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It is bad form to TM every mention of a word, you should only do the first one. Anyways, invariably someone bashes Wolfram's ego whenever talking anything about Wolfram. This should be an internet law already.
Obviously, it should be called Wolfram's law.
Where's the source code? Is this something like CDF that can be only used from Wolfram's binary blob plugin/exes? If they don't release the sources for the compiler/interpreter it will be as popular as their Computable Document Format.
Good question. If they don't release the source, then this, as awesome as it is, is just a product and not a language.
To C&P myself from the previous thread, this looks awesome but I have a few questions: 1. Does the language work without an internet connection? 2. Is it free to use? 3. What happens if/when Wolfram the company goes out of business, or Wolfram himself retires? 4. Are all the disparate APIs and sources that the language uses determined by fiat, or can they be customized? What happens if/when the APIs/sources stop work…
I have become less worried. Wolfram invites comparisons to people like Leibniz for his own ends. I think it is less to stoke his vanity than to set high standards for himself. Choosing Newton as a role model may be vain but it also places massive responsibility upon him. Newton sought to solve important problems not disrupt pet grooming social networks.
He has extended Mathematica and added a search engine and is shipping it with the most affordable computer hardware he can find. Wolfram Language is an attempt to make maximum human knowledge available and Wolfram has chosen to distribute it inside a project to provide universal access to computing hardware.
Will it all work out? There are no guarantees. Millenia are long and media fragile. But I don't think there are many people more committed to the challenge than Wolfram.
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/05/dropping-in-on-gottfr...
Can anyone recommend a good dead-tree book on Mathematica?
This is a great collection of resources: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/606/241 (The most edited post on all of StackExchange)
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If you can't acknowledge Steve Jobs massive contributions to technological progress you're extremely confused about the history.
Wait, what? Jobs didn't create technology, he sold it to people (and did that very well). Before you reply, consider that I was there ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer ) and I knew Jobs personally. I watched how he operated. He was very good at what he did, but he was a promoter, not a creator, of technology -- technology created by others.
I don't understand what you are trying to say. Selling technology is a great way to facilitate its progress. Or do you believe that technology just sells itself?
I know that this is a forum primarily for developers (err, sorry, where are my manners... I meant creators), but the fact is that most developers would not have jobs if salespeople did not sell the products they created. I know that's a difficult thing to grasp for some, but it's true.
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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.
Can anyone recommend a good dead-tree book on Mathematica?
"Power Programming with Mathematica". It's out of print, but can be found free of charge on the Mathematica StackExchange: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/16485/are-you... This is a great collection of resources: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/606/241 (The most edited post on all of StackExchange)
Serious question: How will memory management work for this? Not-so-serious corollary: How much RAM would a Wolfram wolf if a Wolfram would wolf RAM?
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?