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Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language

Wolfram · 923.6K views · 2014-02-24 · 12:56

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Overview

Stephen Wolfram gives a 13-minute tour of the Wolfram Language, a symbolic, functional programming language with a built-in knowledgebase. He demos querying large datasets, interactivity and deployment.

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Commenters point to it as a compact, impressive demo of what the language can do.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2014–2015

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munro · 2014-05 · Strong recommendation

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] [VIDEO]

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outworlder · 2015-05 · Recommendation

> 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: [VIDEO] (initial ego trip skipped) (Another edit: fix typo)

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andreyf · 2014-04 · Recommendation

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: [VIDEO]

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