>From what I recall of Mathematica the language, it has more in common with Lisp than Haskell: it's symbolic, dynamically typed, etc.
Allegedly Wolfram spent years on this; if it has any merit, duplicating it would be difficult. What I'd like to see most is WolframAlpha in action. At this point it is vaporware to me and for all I know this could be the beginning of a neverending charade of "coming to a Interwebs near you Real Soon Now" every few months for the next 10 years, like Duke Nukem Forever. Warren On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Vasili I. Galchin <vigalc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/01/the-secret-behind-the-computational-engine-in-wolframalpha/ > <<< this is obviously a Wolfram Inc. blog so maybe not totally objective ... > but here is a snippet that speaks in Haskell's favor: > > As a result, the five million lines of Mathematica code that make up > Wolfram|Alpha are equivalent to many tens of millions of lines of code in a > lower-level language like C, Java, or Python. > > I am some what familiar with Mathematica and it's multi-paradigm nature > (like F#, OCaml, etc.). In any case, I would like the Haskell community to > view WolframAlpha as a challenge. For what is it worth I presently > cabalizing Swish .... Based on my reading of WolframAlpha it is a semantic > web ... i.e. formal knowledge representation! > > all Google results => > http://www.google.com/search?q=WolframAlpha&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a > > > Kind regards, Vasili > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe