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Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language

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  • Presented by Stephen Wolfram, creator of Wolfram Language
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923K views12 years ago6 recommendations

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Stephen Wolfram introduces the Wolfram Language, demonstrating its symbolic programming, functional capabilities, and built-in knowledgebase.

Stephen Wolfram introduces the Wolfram Language in this video that shows how the symbolic programming language enables powerful functional programming, querying of large databases, flexible interactivity, easy deployment, and much, much more. To learn more about the Wolfram Language, visit wolfram.com/language/ For the latest information visit: reference.wolfram.com/language wolfram.com

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6 people recommend this, 1 disputes it

What people say. Recommended as an impressive demonstration of live coding and symbolic computation capabilities.

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This was no where near as painful as some talks I've seen, where the speaker is programming. Like running of time, and only being half way through the talk. Live coding definitely slows down the momentum. A good example of coding demos is Stephen Wolfram introducing the Wolfram language 1. 12:55 minutes of pure ecstasy :D 1 link to this video
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On “Wolfram Programming Cloud ”

For some background on the language, check out Stephen Wolfram's intro video: link to this video The demos are all pretty impressive, and putting aside the breathless marketing of the programming cloud page, this looks awesome.
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On “Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental”

Stephen Wolfram's demo he referred to doesn't appear to be up yet, but this one from a couple weeks back is pretty sweet: link to this video
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On “Wolfram Language”

> tl;dr: The Wolfram Language is an ok 30-year-old language I don't think it is just 'OK'. It is lispy, with a HEAVY emphasis on symbolic computation. I have yet to see anything even remotely similar to it. EDIT: There's also the visualization aspect. Things like Jupyter (formerly iPython) come close, but still can't do things like render video. If you don't want to read the article, there's this video: link to this video (initial ego trip skipped) (Another edit: fix typo)
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On “Wolfram Language”

link to this video "Stephen™ Wolfram™'s Introduction to the Wolfram™ Language" That Wolfram™ Language and the Wolfram™ Cloud is going to change the world forever, the language is so great because its Wolfram™ Symbolic and since it all just runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud its really fast. You can put all your financial data in the Wolfram™ and do things. You know they worked 30 years on this, and it must be good because it runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud. Cloud Cloud Cloud Bla Bla Bla Bla Buy Buy Buy Wolfram™ Wolfram™ Wolfram™.
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frou_dhon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Wolfram Programming Cloud ”

A report from the International Language-Level Assessment Body. Seriously though, it doesn't seem too far-fetched a claim after seeing all the stuff demoed in the screencast they put out: link to this video Getting pedantic, I suppose there's a distinction between the language in isolation and with its stdlib/environment.
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taliesinbon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Wolfram Programming Cloud ”

There's only so much we can do before those products are released. The Programming Cloud will go live in the next few weeks, along with executable examples on various language and marketing pages. For more information about the language, check out link , as well as link to this video
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On “A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks”

It's basically an attempt to bring the user interface of Mathematica or MATLAB (the "notebook") to the Python world. You can get an idea of what this is like in Mathematic by watching Wolfram's demo: link to this video
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