Re: something to chat about, lisp and Mathematica for list processing.

On Jun 22, 7:21 pm, Jon Harrop <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
rjf wrote:
Search for mathematica and macro...

Like I said, you mean "rule" and not "macro".

As I said, you are pretty much alone.

Google indicates 835,000 results. I think "alone" might be wrong as well...

I found that searching with google on mathematica macro got
557,000 hits.
But if you exclude excel etc. macros, by a search for

mathematica macro -keyboard -basic -excel -solid -matlab -tex

then you get about 50,000 hits.

If you look at the first page or so you find that the hits STILL
describe other languages using macros to invoke mathematica.

Searching on mathematica rule gets about 847,000
hits.

Searching on mathematica rule macro gets 270,000 hits, of which the
first is about tex, the second is about a solid modeling program that
uses macros to call mathematica, and the third is THIS DISCUSSION.

So this thread is apparently a primary reference to mathematica+macros
+rules. In this thread you say that rules and macros are somehow
equivalent, and I say you are apparently alone in believing this. I
think the Google search is supportive of my view, though not
definitive.

In that search, an interview with Wolfram came up...
http://www.stephenwolfram.com/interviews/93-dobbs/
in which SW talks about programming languages, and the interviewer
(from Doctor Dobbs) uses the word macro -- in relation to Lotus123.
SW never uses the word.

I apologize to other readers for taking Jon's troll too seriously.

RJF

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