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That's hilarious, because the Wolfram Language is actually quite lispy. Or, at least you can write it in a very lispy style.
by actually_a_dog 5y ago
That's hilarious, because the Wolfram Language is actually quite lispy. Or, at least you can write it in a very lispy style.
- bitwize 5y ago... blah blah who do not understand blah blah are doomed to reinvent blah poorly...
- User23 5y agoGreenspun strikes again[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule
- djsbs 5y agoId say it is lisp, with a slight syntax difference
- jordigh 5y agoIt kind of literally is lisp. It's about the only implementation of M-expressions instead of S-expressions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression#Implementations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression#Implementations
- etaioinshrdlu 5y agoThe way the whole language is implemented in terms of pattern matching and term rewriting is unlike any other language that I’ve seen. It does not seem quite like Lisp in that way.
- jeffparsons 5y agoTransforming patterns into other patterns is kind of Stephen Wolfram's _thing_. See his long term interest in cellular automata, and now even an attempt to discover the secrets of the universe through a theory of physics based (as far as I can tell from what I've read of it) entirely on pattern matching and rewriting: https://www.wolframphysics.org/ https://www.wolframphysics.org/.