Wolfram Language

I’m impressed. Beyond being just a grab-bag of libraries (which it could have been) it seems there’s real thinking about composability here. The laziness of evaluation, the “symbolic-ness” makes it a powerful functional programming language. In fact, it’s almost a “data-flow” language. Of the kind, like Yahoo Pipes, which can become an orchestrator of web-level …

Windows to Support Android Apps?

Mary Jo Foley asks if Microsoft could or should enable Android apps on Windows. I’d think it would be more to the point to support standard HTML5 / Javascript apps. as first class citizens in Windows. It’s just as good a way to pick up a lot of developers. ChromeOS and FirefoxOS developers can port …

Meld

I don’t think I noted, when I was discussing bringing the OWL and OWLdroid codebases back together, that I was using Meld. Just wanna say it here … Meld rocks! Thanks guys!