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How is data security handled? If a company wanted to analyze some sensitive/proprietary-type data, could they do so in Mathematica Online with some confidence that the data is safe?
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> The exact thing you seem to want, which is "what does a LISP programmer need to know about WL?" doesn't exist, I would want a spec of the basics of the language. Not a collection of vague statements and some examples. > The tutorial goes into more depth [2]. A tutorial goes into more depth than the main documentation? Really? If you read the tutorial, you see that the compiler is far from being able what a modern c…
WL is similar to Python: it is predominantly an interpreted language. Where that becomes a problem, we wrap other libraries, or move small chunks of code into a VM to avoid the cost of the evaluator, or to C and then compile that (a rather roundabout way of doing things that will improve when we move to LLVM). But as I said before, CPython is a close analogy for where we are at. What we don't have yet is the equivale…