Re:Ask HN: Which programming language has the most feature c...
by brudgers on Friday January 01, 2016 @01:16PM
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There's a case for the Wolfram Programming Language since instead of having a standard library...or any libraries at all...the language itself incorporates all the extensions [some 5000 functions].
If nothing else, this is a language design that challenges the way people think about programming languages. What I find interesting and worth investigating is the possibility that not having to import this and that from a somewhat arbitrary taxonomy of siloed knowledge may reduce cognitive overhead. So it's on my list of languages to investigate over the next few months.
If nothing else, this is a language design that challenges the way people think about programming languages. What I find interesting and worth investigating is the possibility that not having to import this and that from a somewhat arbitrary taxonomy of siloed knowledge may reduce cognitive overhead. So it's on my list of languages to investigate over the next few months.
YMMV.