Re: Stephen Wolfram's recent blog
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- Subject: [mg129812] Re: Stephen Wolfram's recent blog
- From: Peter Klamser <klamser at googlemail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:07:24 -0500 (EST)
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The Language is an abstract construction to describe Mathematica expressions. Mathematica is a software package with an includes interpreter of the language. A wonderful weekend wishes Peter 2013/2/15 Helen Read <readhpr at gmail.com>: > I don't even understand what the difference is between the "programming > language of Mathematica" and Mathematica itself. Isn't it all just > Mathematica? > > Helen Read > University of Vermont > > On 2/13/2013 4:47 AM, danl at wolfram.com wrote: >> Readers of comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica (MathGroup) might be interested in the latest blog from Stephen Wolfram. >> >> http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/02/what-should-we-call-the-language-of-mathematica/ >> >> It raises the question of what to call the programming language of Mathematica. I will quote from near the end: >> >> "What should the name be? I'm hoping to get feedback on the ideas I've discussed here, as well as to get new suggestions." >> >> The Comments section has reached 66 as of the time of my writing this note. And the blog is but a few hours old. Suggestions are solicited. >> >> Daniel Lichtblau >> Wolfram Research >> > > > >