I thought his blog had some interesting points. I enjoyed reading it. Do I wish Mathematica was more affordable and/or open source? Yes. So what. That doesn't make Wolfram a lunatic or a fraud. Remember that mathematicians like Mandelbrot where also considered frauds at first.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Alec Battles <alec.batt...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Thought some Clojure folk might enjoy this: > > > > > http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2010/11/100-years-since-principia-mathematica/ > > Though I don't use Clojure (I follow this list out of curiosity), I > have a hard time imagining why anything Wolfram writes is interesting, > and furthermore why any a user of any not-so-mainstream language would > find it interesting, and even furthermore why a mathematician would. > > "And in mathematics, the difference between open-source and > closed-source is more important, for the reason that any part of a > mathematical solution that cannot be fully examined is fatal to the > result." > > --http://www.arachnoid.com/sage/ > > Sorry if members of this group consider this off-topic, but I honestly > couldn't restrain myself... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
