When writing programs in Basic (I'm teaching it to my son), I find I want to put a lot more comments in the code. The comments are roughly English translations of the program I'd write in a powerful language, and my source code is roughly the resulting object code.
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If Wolfram could use LLVM as a backend then we'd be closer to this ideal. I feel that term-rewriting systems have too low performance ceilings for many applications. And you don't need the full term-rewriting capability for everything.
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I don't understand why term rewriting cannot be made efficient. Ultimately, the question is how many watts of determinism we can suck from the substrate. The main issue might be that Wolfram guards his language like his exocortex. He'd rather not sell any of it.
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Wolfram is the language I taught my 10-year old in. Advantage for her was the ability to manipulate geography, geometry, and language right out of the box, which made things more interesting.
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and maniac is the nice way to put it...
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