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posted by martyb on Wednesday July 22 2015, @04:23AM   Printer-friendly
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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2015, @12:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2015, @12:23PM (#212284)

    Why? It's actually easy to parse: It says that the Wolfram Alpha guys announced that they now read their email and are compliant with Zawinski's law, and that way also protect Wolfram Language from becoming obsolete.

    Now I doubt that this is exactly what the author wanted to say, but that's not a problem of parsing.