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My first impressions from the talk is that it looks a lot like Wolfram's programming lab [0]. Which is great because while I really like the idea of WPL the cos
by agentultra 11y ago
My first impressions from the talk is that it looks a lot like Wolfram's programming lab [0]. Which is great because while I really like the idea of WPL the cost is rather prohibitive. More competition in this arena is definitely necessary.
What will programming look like in 10 years? My guess is that it will look much the same as it does now. We'll have better languages for expressing temporal logic and consistency but it might not be radically far off from where we are now.
Text is still useful and certainly notations could improve but that's about it.
The idea of programming from tables using declarative or logic programming is certainly not new but very powerful. k comes to mind... which is probably at the extreme opposite end of usability. Never the less even COBOL had a sense of this.
Looking forward to where Eve goes next. My ideal environment is one where I can freely mix hand-drawn "symbols" to data and express relations using familiar mathematical notations in a single free-form canvas. I sort of do this on paper presently but I have to translate this artifact into a programming language to insert values and explore the various dimensions. It'd be nice to have a system that could recognize my notations and let me hook them up to data.
[0] https://www.wolfram.com/programming-lab/ https://www.wolfram.com/programming-lab/
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Well... not quite like Wolfram Language; but the connection to knowledge, queries, and building new knowledge from queries. The interface is quite flexible too.
- pjmlp 11y agoIf you delve into the documentation of Xerox PARC (Cedar, Interlisp-D, Smalltalk) and later Lisp Machines vendors, their environments already offered many of the Wolfram features. This is why I like it so much, even if it is commercial. After all I used to pay for my compilers.