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You may Sleep Well Knowing the Wolfram Language Will Last

posted by martyb on Wednesday July 22 2015, @04:23AM   Printer-friendly
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c0lo writes:

The Wolfram Alpha guys announced they are finally compliant with Zawinski's law of software envelopment[*] and read email, thus the risk of Wolfram language becoming obsolete dropped.

[*] "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday July 22 2015, @12:00PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 22 2015, @12:00PM (#212271) Journal

    but I must admit I had to suppress a couple yawns.

    Why suppress them? Told yea you may sleep well.

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