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		pjmlp 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal tha... It is basically another take on Lisp, and the development approach Lisp Machines had, repackaged in a more friendly syntax. Lisp was the AI language until the first AI Winter took place, and also took Prolog alongside it. Wolfram Alpha basically builds on them, to put in a very simplistic way.

krackers 18 days ago [–]

It's one of the only M-expression versions of Lisp. All the weird stuff about Wolfram Language suddenly made sense when I saw it through that lens

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