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Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2015

What HN commenters said

  1. “A good example of coding demos is Stephen Wolfram introducing the Wolfram language [1]. 12:55 minutes of pure ecstasy :D”

    Exemplary short coding demo of the Wolfram language

    munro, 2014-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Interactively Programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript”

  2. “The demos are all pretty impressive”

    Stephen Wolfram's intro video with impressive demos of the language.

    jdp, 2014-03 · Recommendation · in “Wolfram Programming Cloud ”

  3. “this one from a couple weeks back is pretty sweet”

    Wolfram demo of the language, described as pretty sweet

    andreyf, 2014-04 · Recommendation · in “Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental”

  4. “If you don't want to read the article, there's this video”

    Video alternative to the article introducing the language

    outworlder, 2015-05 · Recommendation · in “Wolfram Language”

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Topics: wolfram language, symbolic programming, mathematica, functional programming, live coding

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