Re: [sage-devel] wolfram language

2014-03-07 Thread William Stein
On Mar 7, 2014 8:35 AM, "Jason Aubrey" wrote: > > A perspective on the wolfram language in Slate: > The TL;DR is "It is rehashed snake oil. " > http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/03/stephen_wolfram_s_new_programming_language_can_he_make_the_world_computable.html > > (Sage gets

Re: [sage-devel] wolfram language

2014-03-07 Thread Jason Aubrey
A perspective on the wolfram language in Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/03/stephen_wolfram_s_new_programming_language_can_he_make_the_world_computable.html (Sage gets a mention.) On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > I just saw this on HackerNews:

Re: [sage-devel] wolfram language

2014-03-02 Thread rjf
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 2:45:47 AM UTC-8, Harald Schilly wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:26 PM, rjf > > wrote: > > So how does it stack up as > > (a) user experience? > > I have some contact with others teaching MMA, and what struck me when > watching the demo video in regard of UX is

Re: [sage-devel] wolfram language

2014-03-02 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:26 PM, rjf wrote: > So how does it stack up as > (a) user experience? I have some contact with others teaching MMA, and what struck me when watching the demo video in regard of UX is, that there are two major shortcomings. First, it's inconsistent. If something doesn't

Re: [sage-devel] wolfram language

2014-02-27 Thread rjf
I have mentioned that in another forum the issue of the naming of the language was raised. Wolfram actually had a competition of sorts, but ultimately his ego won, and he just named it Wolfram. Here's what I wrote.. There are so many wonderful ideas from Stephen, and he explains how this langu

Re: [sage-devel] wolfram language

2014-02-27 Thread rjf
Setting aside the self-praise, the ego, and the non-open-source, it seems to me to be an entirely valid question as to how it stacks up against Sage as, say, a user experience, or a programming environment. The central idea of the presentation seems to be the value of providing (or allowing) in

Re: [sage-devel] wolfram language

2014-02-27 Thread Tom Boothby
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > I like the fact the picture on his desktop is of him. > > Dave Isn't yours? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails fr

Re: [sage-devel] wolfram language

2014-02-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 25 Feb 2014 03:13, "Jason Grout" wrote: > > I just saw this on HackerNews: > > http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2014/02/starting-to-demo-the-wolfram-language/ I like the fact the picture on his desktop is of him. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Grou

[sage-devel] wolfram language

2014-02-24 Thread Jason Grout
I just saw this on HackerNews: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2014/02/starting-to-demo-the-wolfram-language/ I understand that they are trying to release the mathematica cloud thing sometime this quarter. This video (above) is kind of interesting. The cloud interface to mathematica is talked