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Re:The Wolfram Language: Fast Introduction for Programmers by ori_b on Monday December 21, 2015 @05:16PM (#10773947)
Ok. So they basically use a namespace. Now, your objection is that the implementation of the builtin functions repeats Geo too much?

As a user, why should I care?

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Re:The Wolfram Language: Fast Introduction for Programmers by murbard2 on Monday December 21, 2015 @05:51PM (#10774151)
No, that's the weakest advantage, I've cited others. For instance, being able to rename the namespace is very important if you're using third party libraries which may have conflicting names.
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Re:The Wolfram Language: Fast Introduction for Programmers by brandonbloom on Monday December 21, 2015 @06:15PM (#10774290)
Half the reason for Wolfram Language's large standard library is that you should almost never need a third party library of any kind. If there was a third party library that was particularly useful to typical Mathematica use cases, Wolfram would just put it in to the standard library...
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Re:The Wolfram Language: Fast Introduction for Programmers by __s on Monday December 21, 2015 @07:01PM (#10774547)
& claim the code as their own
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