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Did anyone else notice that with 14.1 the application (on Mac at least) has renamed from "Mathematica" to "Wolfram"?[1] This is a bit annoying for me because I
by seanhunter 2y ago
Did anyone else notice that with 14.1 the application (on Mac at least) has renamed from "Mathematica" to "Wolfram"?[1]
This is a bit annoying for me because I launch things using spotlight search so have to relearn my muscle memory[2] but also it doesn't replace the 14.0 binary which caused me to do the install and then redo it because I was launching "mathematica" which was still telling me 14.0 so I didn't think the upgrade had worked and ran it again before realising what was up.
[1] I find it kind of weird that he keeps naming things after himself but I suppose it's at least a consistent pattern.
[2] Actually I just made a symlink
- throwaway48540 2y agoIt was always Wolfram language, Wolfram Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha. Now they're unifying the three products, makes sense to choose the common word that's also the name of the company, which is the name of the author and founder - also very standard, a bit less so in the IT world, but look anywhere else: Ford, Daimler Benz, Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky, Northrop Grumann, ...
- seanhunter 2y agoHaving the name of the product be the name of the company is not standard at all. Ford don't call have a car called the "Ford Ford". In fact none of those companies have the brand name of their products be the name of the company. Secondly wolfram wasn't always the name of the language either. That name was adopted in 2013. That's why if you use a lot of products that do syntax highlighting (eg code blocks in mathjaxx) you get the right highlighting by going ```mathematica not ```wolfram.
- throwaway48540 2y agoIt's Wolfram language, not Wolfram Wolfram...
- seanhunter 2y agoI was referring to the product formerly known as mathematica, but whatever.