Hello, http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/01/the-secret-behind-the-computational-... <<< this is obviously a Wolfram Inc. blog so maybe not totally objective ... but here is a snippet that speaks in Haskell's favor: As a result, the five million lines of *Mathematica* code that make up Wolfram|Alpha are equivalent to many tens of millions of lines of code in a lower-level language like C, Java, or Python. * I am some what familiar with Mathematica and it's multi-paradigm nature (like F#, OCaml, etc.). In any case, I would like the Haskell community to view WolframAlpha as a challenge. For what is it worth I presently cabalizing Swish .... Based on my reading of WolframAlpha it is a semantic web ... i.e. formal knowledge representation! all Google results => http://www.google.com/search?q=WolframAlpha&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a Kind regards, Vasili *
From what I recall of Mathematica the language, it has more in common with Lisp than Haskell: it's symbolic, dynamically typed, etc.
Allegedly Wolfram spent years on this; if it has any merit,
duplicating it would be difficult.
What I'd like to see most is WolframAlpha in action. At this point it
is vaporware to me and for all I know this could be the beginning of a
neverending charade of "coming to a Interwebs near you Real Soon Now"
every few months for the next 10 years, like Duke Nukem Forever.
Warren
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Vasili I. Galchin
Hello,
http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/01/the-secret-behind-the-computational-... <<< this is obviously a Wolfram Inc. blog so maybe not totally objective ... but here is a snippet that speaks in Haskell's favor:
As a result, the five million lines of Mathematica code that make up Wolfram|Alpha are equivalent to many tens of millions of lines of code in a lower-level language like C, Java, or Python.
I am some what familiar with Mathematica and it's multi-paradigm nature (like F#, OCaml, etc.). In any case, I would like the Haskell community to view WolframAlpha as a challenge. For what is it worth I presently cabalizing Swish .... Based on my reading of WolframAlpha it is a semantic web ... i.e. formal knowledge representation!
all Google results => http://www.google.com/search?q=WolframAlpha&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
Kind regards, Vasili
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On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 17:13 -0700, Warren Henning wrote:
What I'd like to see most is WolframAlpha in action. At this point it is vaporware to me and for all I know this could be the beginning of a neverending charade of "coming to a Interwebs near you Real Soon Now" every few months for the next 10 years, like Duke Nukem Forever.
The website says May 2009 (this month), and I don't know of any previous announcements claiming to have a date. I'm buying this one. Jeff Wheeler
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