Re: (off topic) Re: [sage-devel] The future of polybori

2015-06-12 Thread Travis Scrimshaw
On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 12:11:34 PM UTC-7, William wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Francesco Biscani > > wrote: > > On 11 June 2015 at 20:13, Travis Scrimshaw > wrote: > >> > >>Difficult-to-dechiper can be considered a pro by bigger businesses > with > >> proprietry

Re: (off topic) Re: [sage-devel] The future of polybori

2015-06-11 Thread Tom Boothby
Wow, is that some top-shelf navel lint. Perhaps we should call the language WolframWolframWolfram, or WWW for short. Then, Stephen and Al Gore can fight over who invented what. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: > > On 11 Jun 2015 20:10, "William Ste

Re: (off topic) Re: [sage-devel] The future of polybori

2015-06-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 11 Jun 2015 20:10, "William Stein" wrote: > > It's officially called "The Wolfram Language" [1] beating out [2] many It would never surprise me is it was renamed to the Stephen Wolfram Language. Dave. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel

Re: (off topic) Re: [sage-devel] The future of polybori

2015-06-11 Thread Francesco Biscani
Bravo, that was pretty good :) On 11 June 2015 at 21:10, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Francesco Biscani > wrote: > > On 11 June 2015 at 20:13, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > >> > >>Difficult-to-dechiper can be considered a pro by bigger businesses > with > >> proprie

Re: (off topic) Re: [sage-devel] The future of polybori

2015-06-11 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Francesco Biscani wrote: > On 11 June 2015 at 20:13, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: >> >>Difficult-to-dechiper can be considered a pro by bigger businesses with >> proprietry software to help prevent reverse-engineering (although from what >> I've been told, they ty

Re: (off topic) Re: [sage-devel] The future of polybori

2015-06-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/11/2015 02:55 PM, Francesco Biscani wrote: > > Not sure what you mean by that. I have worked in the past for a > multinational company (>100k employees) on software which costs hundreds > of thousands of dollars per license, and never heard of that. I am not > an assembly guy but I would thi

Re: (off topic) Re: [sage-devel] The future of polybori

2015-06-11 Thread Francesco Biscani
On 11 June 2015 at 20:13, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: >Difficult-to-dechiper can be considered a pro by bigger businesses with > proprietry software to help prevent reverse-engineering (although from what > I've been told, they typically run it through a scrambler before compiling > the code for

Re: (off topic) Re: [sage-devel] The future of polybori

2015-06-11 Thread Francesco Biscani
I agree partially about your "best programming language" statement: there are languages which are useful for very few things - see Fortran - while others have broader applicability. With C++ one can do well and comfortably enough scientific computing, system programming, graphics, and a host of oth

Re: (off topic) Re: [sage-devel] The future of polybori

2015-06-11 Thread Travis Scrimshaw
Difficult-to-dechiper can be considered a pro by bigger businesses with proprietry software to help prevent reverse-engineering (although from what I've been told, they typically run it through a scrambler before compiling the code for release). However, from my experience, it is the quality

(off topic) Re: [sage-devel] The future of polybori

2015-06-11 Thread William Stein
(off topic) On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Francesco Biscani wrote: >> Or at least it is not hard to write modern C++ that is very difficult for >> others to work on. > > > Isn't it true for most languages? In my opinion, absolutely unequivocally not.Each programming languages has a huge