Mathematica will be on every Raspberry PI

On 11/22/2013 5:23 PM, Steve Haflich wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Richard Fateman <fateman at berkeley.edu 
> <mailto: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.
You removed the continuing context.
>
>     named  X  who conducts a contest to name a programming
>     language, and then decides to name it the X language?
>
Well, it depends on how you read it, I think.   I am mocking a behavior:

I could rephrase this way ... Consider the _activity_ "conducting a 
contest to name <something>  and then
just naming it for oneself"   Identifying it as, say, _immodest_ 
behavior.  Mocking the activity, you see.

While the emphasis/relevance for this mailing list  would seem to be  on 
the Mathematica system,
the announcement emphasizes "the Wolfram Language" and the title
mentions  Mathematica only parenthetically...


    Putting the Wolfram Language (and /Mathematica/) on Every Raspberry Pi



Presumably the thought is that purchasers of the Raspberry Pi will so 
enjoy the software that
they will find it advantageous to buy commercial licenses either (a) 
for  "non-personal"
use on the Raspberry Pi,  or  (b) for execution on more powerful computers.

Assuming the language Wolfram is referring to is the well-known base 
programming language that
is the textual user-interface / algorithm programming / command/ 
language for Mathematica,
he has been  contending that it is suitable for all kinds of things, 
from introductory
computer science to anything else.   It hasn't caught on.  EGOFART perhaps.

How hard would it be to demonstrate Maxima on a Raspberry Pi?  There is 
apparently clisp
and clojure.