Thu, 31. May 2007

WTF

“Particularly in more advanced applications of Mathematica, it may sometimes seem worthwhile to try to analyze internal algorithms in order to predict which way of doing a given computation will be the most efficient. And there are indeed occasionally major improvements that you will be able to make in specific computations as a result of such analyses.

But most often the analyses will not be worthwhile. For the internals of Mathematica are quite complicated, and even given a basic description of the algorithm used for a particular purpose, it is usually extremely difficult to reach a reliable conclusion about how the detailed implementation of this algorithm will actually behave in particular circumstances.” (Wolfram Research Inc.) … *gasp* …

“Wow. I can’t believe they actually said that. What incredible arrogance. I think this in itself demonstrates pretty clearly why open source alternatives are necessary.” (David)

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