Re: Mathematica language issues
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- Subject: [mg53149] Re: Mathematica language issues
- From: Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 04:00:54 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Maxim wrote: <snip> > I can't see any > justification for keeping this sort of thing unchanged: Here are two possible justifications. 1. The person who wrote that part of Mathematica is no longer employed by the company, and making changes in it would require that someone else take up this part of the program and fix it in ways that might break something. 2. Probably there would not be even one extra sale of Mathematica if it were fixed, so why bother? even the > compatibility doesn't seem to be an issue here because I doubt anyone > purposely made use of this 'feature'. > > Maxim Rytin > m.r at inbox.ru >