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Quoting from the blog post. But Wolfram’s vision for computation is much more profound—to unify and automate computation across computational fields, applicati
by zitterbewegung 5y ago
Quoting from the blog post.
But Wolfram’s vision for computation is much more profound—to unify and automate computation across computational fields, application areas, user types, interfaces and deployments.
The problem with Wolfram Tech is the above objective can be done by doing one thing and is improving developer ergonomics.
I would say that the Wolfram Language would need a complete overhaul. When I was using it was basically combining Lisp (but using the original M-expression syntax), Symbolic computation and an approach to including every possible mathematical field.
These problems are just since Mathematica is so old it didn't need to or even the concepts of what it achieved it is one of the biggest issues. So, if the Wolfram language just made a bunch of non breaking changes and copy Javascript like syntax then it might actually be useful but right now I don't see it achieving anything like that at all.
- rob_c 5y agoHeaven forbid more researchers and people fluent in tek took the time to learn to code better rather than moan they can't input maths symbols into the keyboard... I'd love to see basic computing taught alongside algebra but apparently "thats too difficult"...