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Wolframania

Posted by michael on from the making-a-splash dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "The New York Times has had a couple of articles about Stephen Wolfram in the last couple of weeks. Is he self-aggrandizing or brilliant? Or both? And is God a software engineer?" I thought our reader-contributed review of ANKOS was quite good.

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  1. pure liquid evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is he self-aggrandizing or brilliant?

    ... Based on the number of frosh at my alma matter that cringe at the mention of the name "Mathematica", I'd say he's the antichrist.

    "Life is hard, but it's harder if you're stupid"

  2. Re:NyTimes Slashbox by donnacha · · Score: 3, Funny

    We might as well go over some of the other cool Nytimes articles not mentioned yet on slashdot: ... Review of a new book about the rise of eBay
    Actually, /. covered that with this story on Friday, reviewing the actual book that the NYTimes piece is based on.

    Maybe you should spend less time on NYTimes and more on /.

    :)

    Slashdot; who needs other sites?

  3. Re:Anyone read it yet? by donnacha · · Score: 5, Funny

    or do you end up with that odd "cold fusion" feeling of being fed a bucket of horse crap?
    Or, indeed, a multi-dimensional containment field of horse crap.
  4. God's Notation Sucks by donnacha · · Score: 4, Funny

    And is God a software engineer?

    Well, if he is I refuse to work with his code, not until he comes back and notates it properly.

  5. Re:God as a Software Engineer??? by slickwillie · · Score: 3, Funny

    If God is a software engineer, then Satan must be a [C++|Perl|COBOL|C#] hacker.

    Also, I wonder if God uses vi or Emacs?