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=WolframAlphaie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficialclient=firefox-a
Kind regards, Vasili
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