Subject: Mathematica will be on every Raspberry PI
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:51:38 -0800
On 11/22/2013 8:34 AM, Robert Pollak wrote:
> Am 22.11.2013 17:11, schrieb Richard Fateman:
>> On 11/22/2013 4:52 AM, Steve Haflich wrote:
>>> This is currently linked from slashdot and should be of interest to
>>> the group.
>>>
>>> http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/11/21/putting-the-wolfram-language-and-mathematica-on-every-raspberry-pi/
>>>
> [..]
>> Interesting. I wonder where's the hook.
> That's easy - the hook is the lifelong dependency on Mathematica :)
>
> I still recommend avoiding ad-hominem attacks.
>
Is it an ad hominem attack to mock someone named X who conducts a
contest to name a programming
language, and then decides to name it the X language?
My comments were not about the Mathematica system for symbolic mathematics
[and other things as well] but about the programming language name. I
have
previously commented on the design of the user-level programming
language, quite
independent of the person(s) who designed it. Whoever that might be.
Mathematica, which is largely a collection of functions implementing
commands accessible
possibly from that language, has some interesting features and flaws
too. There is
a substantial overlap with the capabilities of Maxima. Given the fact
that it originated
several decades after Maxima (Macsyma), I find it disappointing that
Mathematica
had so many similar problems. Some of these have been repaired in subsequent
versions.
Regarding the syntactic question of beginning sentence fragments with
And and But,
(and Because), I counted 17 out of some 59 phrases. A kind of verbal
tic, though
sometimes acceptable in informal writing... see
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/can-you-start-sentences-with-%E2%80%9Cand%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cbut%E2%80%9D/