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Jan 4, 2018 at 6:46 history tweeted twitter.com/StackMma/status/948807829242155008
Jan 3, 2018 at 23:33 answer added Carl Woll timeline score: 3
Jan 3, 2018 at 23:27 answer added Alan timeline score: 0
Jan 3, 2018 at 23:05 comment added Henrik Schumacher An informal and incomplete attempt to answer the first question: Exaggerating a bit, the Mathematica kernel can do basically one thing (and it can do that pretty well) and that is replacing expressions. The whole language (as far as I can tell) is based on the concept of replacements. Metaphorically, it is the kernel itself that calls Replace and ReplaceAll during evaluation. All the other functionality (like the concept of Function) is emulated from this basic principle.
Jan 3, 2018 at 22:19 history edited Kuba CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 3, 2018 at 22:09 history asked John CC BY-SA 3.0