asciilifeform did not exhume this item to praise 'mathematica' but to bury it - it's an example of something everybody else should have copied and used as permanent baseline for anything new, like kalashnikov.
asciilifeform: must really be seen to be understood.
asciilifeform: but herr w. isn't paying me to create addicts. i'm almost sorry i mentioned it...
asciilifeform: that isn't really a complete picture.
asciilifeform: graphical constructs as first-class data structures.
asciilifeform: decimation: of course, users of 'matlab' will say 'sure! we're same.' -- like 'glbse' vs 'mpex'...
asciilifeform: decimation: not even remotely the same.
asciilifeform: it's herr w. showing screen captures.
asciilifeform: to answer this question, for those who really are certain they wish to know.
asciilifeform: i was always too lazy to answer this question (and don't fancy getting folks addicted, i laboured under abject druggie hell from it) but the film exists now
asciilifeform: mp_colonist: it only became interesting after ver. 6 or so.
asciilifeform: (forget 'w. alpha', it's a clown show) mathematica - is example of a product for which not even a vaguely passable (to aficionado) alternative exists, at any price point
asciilifeform: beyond it being there on tap when necessary.
asciilifeform: most of the humiliation serves no immediate purpose
asciilifeform: decimation: my operation was 100% usg.
asciilifeform: where he could easily ask most of the hardcore users to suck his cock as a condition of license renewal - and many would.
asciilifeform: i linked to the film not because anything in it is new (the maniac renamed the product after himself, for no reason, but this is uninteresting) but to demonstrate a genuine monopoly product
asciilifeform: in that most of their revenue comes from 'whales.'
asciilifeform: mp_colonist: wolfram corp. is quite unlike a restaurant
asciilifeform: mp_colonist: i am very glad they did not fix. relying on black box turd for a critical piece of mechanics was stupid, and it was necessary to pay with suffering for it (did.)
asciilifeform: mp_colonist: i did sign off on ~7kBez worth of wolframiana. but did not expect the same level of fellatio as the folks who we paid 40k/seat. and got what expected.
