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
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
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 17:13 -0700, Warren Henning wrote:
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
