Re:Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source
by pilchardbreath on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:18PM
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Undocumented is not one of its problems: There are 10,000+ pages at http://reference.wolfram.com
Not just every function, but many arguments have their own pages - every import format, entity type, method. The problem is finding the right function.
Re:Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source
by yummypaint on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:36PM
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Agreed. It definitely has its uses, but it lacks the self-consistency needed to be a language. Alot of this is for understandable historical reasons, but it has never been smoothed out as it would be in a project with more community involvement. Again that's ok.
Maybe we need something to be to mathematica as octave is to matlab.
Re:Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source
by Armisael16 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:45PM
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https://www.maplesoft.com/compare/mathematica_analysis/
That you haven't heard of it is perhaps telling.
Maple is not FOSS and is not a clone, Mathics is to Mathematica as octave is to Matlab.
Wolfram is just a huge proprietary library. It's arguably not a language at all. And it has an appalling UI that makes it unsuited for building modern apps for others.