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Reading through the spec blurb - it looks more like a piece of software that comes with its own scriptable language rather than a language per se. Similar to ho
by eps 10y ago
Reading through the spec blurb - it looks more like a piece of software that comes with its own scriptable language rather than a language per se. Similar to how Mathematica is. Yes, there's syntax and semantics to it, but it's mainly about the built-in functionality.
- mephistoschmalz 10y agoRelated story: Stephen Wolfram (the "inventor" of Mathematica talked at my university many years ago about an early version of Mathematica. It was probably version 2 or 3 at that point.) He noted that Mathematica was a programming language (but different than imperative languages in a lot of ways) and said "but if I said that I created a new programming language, people would string me up because there are too many already" (or something like that.) He concluded, "that's why we call Mathematica 'A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer'". It got a huge laugh.