Subject: Mathematica will be on every Raspberry PI
From: Steve Haflich
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:23:53 -0800
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Richard Fateman <fateman at berkeley.edu>wrote:
> On 11/22/2013 8:34 AM, Robert Pollak wrote:
>
>>
>> I still recommend avoiding ad-hominem attacks.
>>
>> Is it an ad hominem attack to mock someone
Yes. By definition.
> 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.
If you believe that, fine, but it was barely relevant to the subject of
this thread.
> 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/
Yes, that is something up with which the Maxima list should not put:
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html
If, next century, anyone remembers Wolfram, it will not be for the elegance
of his prose, same as for the memory of maxima at math.utexas.edu.