[Haskell-cafe] Implementing Mathematica

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:56:30PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:15:55 Andrew Coppin wrote:
> > Jon Harrop wrote:
> > > I wrote a toy Mathematica implementation in OCaml while I
> > > waited to be viva'd for my PhD. It garnered so much interest that Wolfram
> > > Research bought it from me for £4,500 and gave me several free copies of
> > > Mathematica.
> >
> > Are you serious?! o_O
> 
> Yes.

You said that constructing a specification is the hardest part of
implementing Mathematica, and you also say you managed to clone it.
Can you reveal your specification, or did WR give you a NDA? 

Stefan