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It's interesting (for me, anyway) to contrast this with Wolfram's Computable Document Format (CDF, see http://www.wolfram.com/cdf/ http://www.wolfram.com/cdf/ )
by troymc 15y ago
It's interesting (for me, anyway) to contrast this with Wolfram's Computable Document Format (CDF, see http://www.wolfram.com/cdf/ http://www.wolfram.com/cdf/ ).
CDF documents can only be written using Mathematica, are only playable using a special CDF Player (or Mathematica), and you have to license CDF for commercial use. Tangle is free and open source (under an MIT License), JS is "playable" in most web browsers, and JS can be written using any text editor.
- xtacy 15y agoWhile I agree with the comparison, it would be unfair to not point out the wealth of functions that Mathematica exposes: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.html http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.h...
- troymc 15y agoGood point! I wonder how much of Mathematica's functionality can be bundled into stand-alone CDF documents (playable by the CDF Player). Wolfram|Alpha has an API that can be called using JavaScript (for a fee), so some mixed solution is also worth considering.