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by neuromantik8086 2131 days ago
I never said that Konrad Hinsen's agenda was hidden; in fact, it's not at all hidden (which is why I linked the abstract). It's just that this context isn't at all clear in the Nature write-up, and it's relevant to take into account.

I haven't taken the time to seriously contemplate the merits of CWL vs Leibniz, although my gut instinct is that we don't really need another domain-specific language for science given the profusion of such languages that already exist (Mathematica, Maple, R, MATLAB, etc). That's the extent of my bias, but again, it's a gut instinct and not a comprehensive well-reasoned argument against Leibniz.