Re:Programming paradigms that change how people think about ...
by coldtea on Friday March 08, 2019 @06:17AM
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>Wolfram always impresses me but I can't help but feel like it will never go anywhere. How can it grow without being crushed under its own weight?
Why would it? It's not like a language pays for the storage of libs and datasets it has available.
>As he stated in the video, its all hand crafted data set munging to fit it all together.
It's also a system for symbolic math / functional programming language that's independent from all the "hand crafted data sets".
>I'd love to see a world where wolfrom pulls on datasets out in the wild much like a search engine scrapes web pages but is such a thing possible?
It can already pull anything you want (ingest CSV files, call remote JSON APIs and crunch the data, etc).
It's a regular programming language (lispy even), not some weird concoction.
It just comes prepackaged with an IDE and tons of libraries and datasets.
I'd love to see a world where wolfrom pulls on datasets out in the wild much like a search engine scrapes web pages but is such a thing possible? It begins to sound like a SOAP/WSDL fever dream when you think about automatic knowledge integration.
Maybe something closer to the open source package managers? Wolfram datasets could specify interfaces and dependencies? At least that would allow for new and exciting datasets to gain adoption in the community.