Given that Wolfram Research is tightly held, what happens when the company ends?
Does it "punch a hole" in computational mathematics? Does all of your code stop working?
This isn't idle speculation. I used to use a Symbolics machine. Symbolics Inc. failed. The Symbolics software still exists but you can only buy a copy that runs on DOS. I used Common Lisp on Symbolics. Common Lisp is a standard. There are open source implementations so all of my code survived.
Will your code survive when Wolfram Research dies?
(Full Disclosure, I'm the lead developer on open source Axiom)
Given that Wolfram Research is tightly held, what happens when the company ends? Does it "punch a hole" in computational mathematics? Does all of your code stop working?
This isn't idle speculation. I used to use a Symbolics machine. Symbolics Inc. failed. The Symbolics software still exists but you can only buy a copy that runs on DOS. I used Common Lisp on Symbolics. Common Lisp is a standard. There are open source implementations so all of my code survived.
Will your code survive when Wolfram Research dies?
(Full Disclosure, I'm the lead developer on open source Axiom)