Re:Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source
by coldtea on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @05:36AM
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>In any other language, if I wanted to write some text on a graphic, I would find a routine to load an image into memory and another to render text into that memory. That's genuinely easy. But in Wolfram's case, I'm apparently just supposed to know that there's something called "GeoGraphics" that does this kind of thing, that the text goes in a Style[] block (what?), and "GeoRange -> World" is how you tell it to create a worldmap as a background. WTF.
How's that different from finding a routine (eg. one called GeoGraphics()), or JSX, or HTML/CSS for that matter?
You still need to know where to look, and you need to find the construct (routine, markup, builtin primitive, whatever) that does what you want.
How's that different from finding a routine (eg. one called GeoGraphics()), or JSX, or HTML/CSS for that matter?
You still need to know where to look, and you need to find the construct (routine, markup, builtin primitive, whatever) that does what you want.
The whole example is moot.