
30 May
2007
30 May
'07
11:10 p.m.
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:56:30PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:15:55 Andrew Coppin wrote:
Jon Harrop wrote:
I wrote a toy Mathematica implementation in OCaml while I waited to be viva'd for my PhD. It garnered so much interest that Wolfram Research bought it from me for £4,500 and gave me several free copies of Mathematica.
Are you serious?! o_O
Yes.
You said that constructing a specification is the hardest part of implementing Mathematica, and you also say you managed to clone it. Can you reveal your specification, or did WR give you a NDA? Stefan