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    Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language

    Wolfram

    4 HN recommenders · recommended in 5 months, 2014–2015

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    12:56 · 924K views · Feb 24, 2014

    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.

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

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    8 comments from Hacker News

    1. @munroMay 2014· in “Interactively Programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript”

      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] this video

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    2. @outworlderMay 2015· in “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: this video (initial ego trip skipped) (Another edit: fix typo)

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    3. @jdpMar 2014· in “Wolfram Programming Cloud ”

      For some background on the language, check out Stephen Wolfram's intro video: 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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    4. @andreyfApr 2014· in “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: this video

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    5. @rlx0xFeb 2014· in “Wolfram Language”

      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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