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Indeed. And what nonsense about cohesive design. There's nothing cohesive about the design of Wolfram functions and parameters. Often, they're not even document
by mimixco 8y ago
Indeed. And what nonsense about cohesive design. There's nothing cohesive about the design of Wolfram functions and parameters. Often, they're not even documented!
Wolfram is just a huge proprietary library. It's arguably not a language at all. And it has an appalling UI that makes it unsuited for building modern apps for others.
- yummypaint 8y agoAgreed. It definitely has its uses, but it lacks the self-consistency needed to be a language. Alot of this is for understandable historical reasons, but it has never been smoothed out as it would be in a project with more community involvement. Again that's ok. Maybe we need something to be to mathematica as octave is to matlab.
- Armisael16 8y agohttps://www.maplesoft.com/compare/mathematica_analysis/ https://www.maplesoft.com/compare/mathematica_analysis/ That you haven't heard of it is perhaps telling.
- carlob 8y agoMaple is not FOSS and is not a clone, Mathics is to Mathematica as octave is to Matlab.
- pilchardbreath 8y agoUndocumented is not one of its problems: There are 10,000+ pages at http://reference.wolfram.com http://reference.wolfram.com Not just every function, but many arguments have their own pages - every import format, entity type, method. The problem is finding the right function.
- sigdigs 8y agoNot sure why my original comment was flagged. I suspect W's PR people have found this thread and started damage control.