Wolfram Blog: Computable Data Functions: A Crazy Idea That Just Works

[iamwil]

http://blog.wolfram.com/2007/05/computable_data_functions.html

[ced]

That's hardly crazy. It's just an application that fetches data from a server. The cool thing is, of course, the underlying symbolic system for solving equations, and graphical capabilities, that have been there for 20 years or so.

"A profound image of astonishing richness and complexity that reveals something poetic about the structure of the chemical elements"

And I thought that the Google blog was rah rah rah.

[corentin]

The open source Frink programming language already does this: http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/#OtherDataSources