gwolfe3

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   by gwolfe3 13y ago

   Here is my take about the difference between Mathematica and the Wolfram Language: Mathematica is the combination of an interactive front end for writing code/functions etc., sending them to the Mathematica Kernel, and the displaying t
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   by gwolfe3 13y ago

   Ok, your comment was not about what I thought it was (if I understand your response). It was really about how fast Mathematica is and not about the symbolic functional / lisp like / whatever of the language?
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   by gwolfe3 13y ago

   IMO, the only reason you would say that is that you either know nothing about Mathematica, or that your knowledge of it is very superficial (speaking as someone who uses it daily).
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   by gwolfe3 13y ago

   The normal working environment (Mathematica) is a repl environment.
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   by gwolfe3 13y ago

   I use Mathematica for most of the programming I do. It makes ordinary programming (file handling, database handling, etc.) much easier (at least for me) than it would otherwise be. I even run nightly backups with a Mathematica script, takin
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   StackExchange Founder talks about "Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange"(vimeo.com)

   1 points by gwolfe3 14y ago|0 comments
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   by gwolfe3 14y ago

   It's completely different from Paul Graham's comments. They are very general and kind of generic comments about the future. Wolfram's talk is about computational intelligence, how it is being developed in the form of Wolfram|Alpha, and its