I think Stephen is misrepresenting the Wolfram Language when he says it is a big language. He is really talking about the built in library which is indeed huge. The language proper is actually simple, powerful, and lispy. -David
On Sep 24, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24 September 2014 23:20, Tim Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting talk by Stephen Wolfram at the Strange Loop conference: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCWdsrVcBM > > He goes in the direction of creating a “big” language, rather than a small > kernel that can be built upon, like Smalltalk, Maru, etc. > > Smalltalk and Maru are rather different: Ian Piumarta would argue, I suspect, > that the distinction between "small" and "large" languages is an artificial > one imposed by most languages' inability to change their syntax. Smalltalk > can't, but Maru can. Here we see Ian making Maru understand Smalltalk, ASCII > state diagrams, and other things: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGeN2IC7N0Q > > That's the sort of small kernel you could build Wolfram on. > > Racket is a production-quality example of the same thing: > http://racket-lang.org > > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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