Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro...
by saagarjha on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:44AM
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Wolfram Language is developed by Wolfram Research. It’s a fairly sane name for a language and a company; the fact that Stephen Wolfram tends to come off as narcissistic is unrelated.
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Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro...
by OskarS on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:23AM
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You're saying the fact that Stephen Wolfram comes off as a narcissist is unrelated to the fact that he names everything after himself?
Python isn't called "the van Rossum Language". C isn't called "the Ritchie Language" (or "the Bell language", for that matter). Lisp isn't called the "the McCarthy language". We should judge Wolfram Research's products in spite of their unfortunate names, but denying that they're the result of Wolfram's narcissism is silly at this point.
Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro...
by saagarjha on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:45AM
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People name companies after themselves, and then they name their flagship product after the company–it's not that strange. (To be fair, in this case I would not be surprised if he named the company after himself, and then the language after himself, too. It's just that it's not relevant to keep bringing this up when it's not necessarily a strange practice.)
Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro...
by kazinator on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:32AM
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Wolfram is also recognizable as the Tungsten element (W). Lots of projects are named after elements.
Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro...
by catalogia on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:21AM
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Half of the "Debian" name comes from Ian Murdock's first name. The other half comes from his then-girlfriend's name 'Debra'. I've never heard anybody castigate Ian/Debian for that.
Somebody naming something after themself seems a little tacky to me, but I don't think it's anything to get bent out of shape about.
Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro...
by mplewis on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:35AM
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Probably because Ian doesn't try to commercialize and push a proprietary system of computing on the world with Ian plastered everywhere you can see.
Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro...
by derjames on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:11PM
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Ian passed away on Dec 2015.
Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro...
by catalogia on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:42AM
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Is the issue the branding, or is the issue FOSS vs proprietary? I'm much more sympathetic to the later criticism, which really has nothing to do with the first I think.
Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro...
by jjtheblunt on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:50PM
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And, you can still call it Mathematica!