FOM: Wolfram book review

Neil Tennant neilt at mercutio.cohums.ohio-state.edu
Wed Jun 5 19:36:27 EDT 2002


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, John Kadvany wrote:

> Because of Wolfram's prolix prose style (intended to make the book
> widely readable) ...

I would have thought that a prolix prose style would make any book less
widely readable! (The OED defines "prolix" as meaning lengthy, tedious.)

Neil Tennant





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