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You may sleep well, the Wolfram language will last

Accepted submission by c0lo at 2015-07-20 15:17:57
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The Wolfram Alpha guys announced [wolfram.com] they are finally compliant with Zawinski's law of software envelopment* [wikipedia.org] and read email, thus the risk of Wolfram language becoming obsolete dropped.

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* "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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