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He forgot about Clojure after a minute or so. Never forget your audience.
by copperx 5y ago
He forgot about Clojure after a minute or so. Never forget your audience.
- Keyframe 5y agoneat overview of mathematica, or wolfram desktop or whatever.. angle being language design.. but yeah, clojure disappeared as soon as the camera turned on.
- nightski 5y agoMathematica uses a functional language at its core. As a functional language enthusiast (including Clojure, although I haven't used it for anything professionally) I find discussions about any functional language interesting. In other words, I doubt the only thing Clojure folks care about is Clojure.
- copperx 5y agoI agree, but I had seen videos of him describing Mathematica before, and it's the exact same script. One usually tailors the delivery for the audience.
- earleybird 5y agoI'm inclined to see Mathematica as a term rewriting language - and those languages go way back. I remember when Mathematica was first released and thinking, "hmm, a commercial Macsyma"[0]. Well, technically, by the time Wolfram had SMP[1] Macsyma had gone "strictly from commercial"[2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma [1] https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/smp-symbolic-manipulation-program/ https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/smp-symbolic-man... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHCcUnm4SI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHCcUnm4SI
- mark_l_watson 5y agoHe had a live Clojure demo going near the end.
- fault1 5y agoI think the audience would appreciate Mathematica because the two languages are both Lisp. Perhaps he should have accentuated the Lispyness of it though.
- agumonkey 5y agoI don't think that's the first time a talk shows non Clojure material. That crowd also like different worlds.