Wolfram Programming Language

What does /prog/ think of it?

I hate the idea. It will only bring the word "code", "coders" and "coding" to worse level.

It's not scheme....

I don't even understand what it's supposed to be. It looks identical to Mathematica so far, but I haven't had the time to review it carefully.

It's filling a gap. ML is no fun in C and little better in Python or Scatlab. I haven't used it; but I am cautiously optimistic.

The reference implementation is non-free.

>>5
and close-source

It has no macros. It fails hermeneutic circle and self-organization, required of natural language processing system.

>>7

And yet, it can process natural languages pretty damn good. In fact, better than most systems can.

It looks exactly the same as Mathematica. I'm okay with it as long as it stays homoeroticiconic.

>>9
it is the same.
>>2
not a scheme, but some kind of lisp with fucked mixed up prefix/infix/postfix notations and unicode operators with means of arity and associativity adjustment. not as edgy as symta though.
>>7
i'm not an expert but believe it has. /. and //. (aka ReplaceAll and ReplaceRepeated) look like some sort of macroexpand-1 and macroexpand with explicit environment as second argument. there are also Hold and siblings for quotation.
all in all this is pretty peculiar (if not weird) language but the fact of proprietarity overweights everything for me. i wonder if that is subject to change.

Looks like it's going to be bundled ``free'' with new Raspbian images. Although if you're not bothered by a multi-megabyte closed firmware blob this probably won't matter much.

>>10

Hello, Sir! Symta is now called "The Adolf Hitler Programming Language", or just AH

Thank you for you attention, Sir.

>>12
I still call it Symta.