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I propose "Stephen" I have found Mathematica to be super simple learn and use, so by calling it "Stephen" it shows how friendly and approachable the language i
by ballstothewalls 14y ago
I propose "Stephen"
I have found Mathematica to be super simple learn and use, so by calling it "Stephen" it shows how friendly and approachable the language is while maintaining the connection to the founder's ego.
- hvs 14y agoI've never heard anyone refer to Stephen Wolfram as "friendly and approachable," and naming the language based on that reason would be both amusing and disturbing.
- mauvehaus 14y agoI, for one, don't remember Mathematica being especially "friendly and approachable" either. Maybe for basic stuff, but my introduction to it was a grad-level computational neuroscience class, and it was the source of a great deal of misery in my life for a semester. Maybe for amusement value it /should/ be named Stephen.
- ballstothewalls 14y agoThis is a common complaint, but I don't understand it. Most of my peers that didnt like it had no exposure to programming, though. I have tried to teach myself Ruby and Python before but I have never gotten really far. I am pretty competent in Mathematica though. The key is getting used to their documentation center where they have lots of examples.