Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language

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 www.wolfram.com/language/
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reference.wolfram.com/language
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[@AndrewSanchez11235]

*Picks jaw up off floor, puts back in place, starts exploring Wolfram...

[@uploadJ]

Touche'

[@sqrt-1646]

Is this a rerun from r/rareinsults ?

[@vigandika7146]

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[@SuperGurkan1337]

Did he mention it's symbolic?

[@greje656]

lol! funny :D

[@LuisAldamiz]

... and coherent.

[@StevenAkinyemi]

...and runs in the cloud

[@ShoaibKhan]

One of the most amazing technologies and one of the most brilliant minds! I have been a big admirer of Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica for years and I am sure that the team at Wolfram is doing a great job, help people create amazing things and of course, push the scientific knowledge forward!. Bravo to Stephen Wolfram and his team.

[@RobinLindhNilsson]

5:28 "It all just works" Research something for 30 years and miracles start to happen!

[@fatcole1152]

Wow, I'm so happy I spent the last year learning Java...

[@AndreaMuttoni]

New drinking game: drink every time Stephen says the word "Symbolic"

[@notsus3424]

Say less

[@johnny_eth]

Stephen Wolfram, you are a genius ! Keep on the fantastic work :)

[@vurcease]

Watching this video made me excited to be a programmer all over again.

[@lemonkey]

I was first exposed to Mathematica at UIUC in 1991 and it's great to see how things have continued to evolve.

[@brianpickering8576]

I've been very eager to see the development progress for Wolfram Alpha for a long time now and am glad to finally see a live demo. This is mind-blowing, revolutionary stuff.

[@lynxlive555]

I've used this program all through out my math courses, huge huge help. really helped me understand what the problems mean. been using wolfram alpha since alpha.

[@HeatherBowden]

"uniquely good as a first programming language" exactly what I wanted to hear! Can't wait for your Physics update at 2pm today!

[@nickharris7228]

Excellent presentation. I welcome the progress that has been made since Wolfram|α and my initial encounter with Mathematica 3.0 way back in '96. A sure-footed design process has resulted in a tool that immediately seems familiar to me.

[@tormosilvia]

You have become one of my modern idols! i'll keep learning what your doing, thankyou very much!

[@tomharding]

He seems to have developed a TTS accent.

[@gaweyn]

what makes you think he is a real person and not just a symbolic link to a function of the Wolfram language?

[@tusharaggarwal6870]

Wow. This is amazing. Even though it throws away alot of practice that programmers can get by manually programming all of that stuff, its really interesting and can be helpful for a lot of educational purposes.

[@mengyan2922]

First read Wolfram's story 10+ years ago and thought, this guy could do something more significant. Now I see he's been doing much more significant than I wished.

[@MarkHolmes1]

Fantastic! Looking forward to exploring what seems might be a very deep rabbit hole.

[@MauriceLeviejr]

Been a fan ever since I met you in person in 1990

[@quantumdomain]

Stephen Wolfram keeps amazing constantly. This really is a surprise. I was wondering if it would be a standalone product as its not very clear to me if it would be.

[@RadhwenKhliee]

Cool ! It's a paradise for anyone involved in gathering, analyzing and visualizing data.

[@CuriousJohnLovesYou]

This looks pretty awesome. Stephen Wolfram demos the Wolfram Language, a "knowledge-based programming" language "30 years in the making." Built on "a small set of powerful principles" such as "coherence, maximum automation, scalability, and parallelism," the goal with the Wolfram Language was to "encapsulate as much computational knowledge as possible so people can go from ideas to deployed products as quickly and easily as possible." And yet, despite being "a huge language, by far the largest ever," it seems to be "uniquely good as a first programming language because you can do so much so easily, and quickly get exposed to such a broad range of methods and topics." I've been thinking about learning Rails as my first language, but this seems quite fun and powerful. Anybody want to form a weekly studygroup Hangout? #wolframlanguage #programming #languages #computerscience #functionalprogramming

[@MatthewSchutte]

Hey John, I might be down to join a study cohort with you focused on Wolfram Language. Let's chat about how we want to structure our approach soon.

[@Winium]

This is some amazing technology happening right in front of our eyes. Props.

[@taokodr]

Color me intrigued. Amazing demo!

You know, see my country flag (Uruguay) at 3:00 was lovely... Nice introduction, thanks!

[@Zmunk19]

this was really entertaining to watch, im impressed

[@Omberone]

Wow. I've always wondered how Wolfram Alpha Mathematics worked under the hood, but I had no idea of the complexity of it all. I'm blown away.

[@richardhorvatichfittrader]

This is the most impressive, practical language available!!

[@semtitulo2909]

Why did I never hear about this? This is wonderful. If I learned programming with this it would be simpler

[@christossaripanidis274]

AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT ! Thank you sir. for this aaaamazing creation.

[@jetmind]

Awesome! That's how programming should look like.

[@MuhsinFatih]

MAN THIS IS SO POWERFUL SO GOOD I AM STARTING RIGHT NOW

[@MiRWIN]

Bravo! Thank you Stephen. Thank you so very much...

[@OswaldChisala]

I read on Quora that this is the "Mother of all programs." Not bad. :) I'm new to the MMA language, and find it very appealing, certainly in retrospect to MATLAB (which I love very much as well). Great job with the Wolfram platform, Stephen.

[@agumonkey]

two things : 1) very happy to see symbolic/functional/pattern-based idioms put forth (NPI) like this. 2) impressively large coordinated effort. Almost a lisp os / sidefx houdini / repl.

[@agumonkey]

I suppose that's Xah Lee speaking. I'm almost fine. What about you ? How are things going ?

[@XahLee]

yep, it's me. Doing good these days Thanks.. :)

[@LynnLangit]

super exciting - can't wait to try this out!

[@abcd22327]

Ambitious and intuitive. Can't wait to check it out.

[@ecjonck]

This is AMAZING - You have just defined the future of development. Model Driven, Functional, Mathematical, Declarative, clean and simple, with lots of Knowledge. All in models. I love it. Can I buy shares :-)

[@TheJesbus]

I'm going to use this for all my embedded PIC projects! What's the superfunction for toggling an LED?

[@cheikhna1947]

Great Works ! and excellent idea to make videos to resume Wolfram features!

[@alienaioverlord]

I am stunned that there are only 64K subscribers on this channel... My head is spinning and I feel a bit sick (In a good way) at the monumental possibilities that the whole Wolfram toolset can do! Congrats I will be deep diving on this system. Thank you!

[@jakobson219]

I am stunned that a brilliant man like Stephen Wolfram, who doesn't hesitate to plug Wolfram Language at any opportunity, doesn't realize that its lack of popularity is due to its closed, pay-for-use model. Until it becomes open source it will only be used in institutions that force their students to use Mathematica. Once students graduate they quickly realize that there are free, portable ways of programming (such as Python) that don't lock them into a proprietary system of uncertain future.

[@UniBreakfast]

I feel unprecedentedly stupid now. Thank you.

[@bobbybot9022]

I feel that. I'm not smart when it comes to this stuff and it's so overwhelming to try to learn

[@Seekthetruth3000]

You are not the only one.

[@SandeepChatterjee1789]

This is really awesome! a whole lot of possibilities! when is it going to come out??

[@tedstrauss999]

This is absolutely mind blowing.

[@HawtMax]

The amount the word "symbolic" has been used is astounding. :D But well this is neat stuff!

[@mossy2100]

Thanks, Stephen, it looks very good.

[@prometheuscoil5448]

This looks reeeeally interesting. I am mainly a Python/Haskell programmer, and I am starting to wonder about how does the Wolfram-lang compares to those other two. This might be an interesting evening.

[@fredluchetti5558]

It's about time someone updated HyperCard. This looks awesome.

[@benny_vasquez]

So powerful it's almost overwhelming.

[@drvillegas2]

Impressive. I wonder of Wolfram Language can be deployed using other human languages that have different alphabet system from English such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Russian, Arabic, Sanskrit, International symbols, and graphical user interface icons. Are these available now or in the future versions of Wolfram Language?

[@dragolov]

Deep respect!

[@ikoknyphausen198]

Why did I learn about this only now? I must have been living under a rock ;-)

[@bigpigroy]

It's incredibly amazing.

[@3dgamerman]

Yea, but can it run crysis?

[@BenCauntyt]

yes but unfortunately only at 1.25 billion FPS on max settings...

[@hotamohit]

Yes, symbolically!

[@frede1k]

Best comment

[@PhilipSheldrake]

Is it me or did the world just change?

[@saurabhtalreja5779]

only video in my life I thot of giving more than a like... worth watching

[@MatiasMolinas]

Amazing, I always liked Mathematica, because it is symbolic and for its design. I used it on PCs, but I believe that it was designed to run in NeXT computers., and that this new language is an old promise of Wolfram ;) . .the first idea (If I remember well..) was a new language based on cellular automata, or something like that... again.. it is amazing!

[@trungleminh7056]

unbelievable effort!

[@daveprout7859]

This is pretty mind-blowing.

[@kosson]

Nice! I wish it will get enough traction. That depends a lot by the licensing... well I know its a business, but people I believe there is a quirk here. Amazing

[@GlenOakley]

Absolutely beautiful, removing the overhead from a tool designed purely for computation by using the functional paradigm.

[@ashwinkrishna]

Amazing. Mind Blowing!!

[@sriramv4306]

awesome!! Can't wait to try it!

[@KirillTitov]

This is amazing!

[@CraigTalbert]

I'm at least sold on trying it. I've been using Weka to do some basic document classification, this might be easier to integrate with other things, though.

[@andrewbrown3867]

There is a time and place for both low level programming and high level programming. This abstraction is deep but powerful. Wherever it may be useful, I'm not sure, but I'm sure people will find great ways to put it to use.

[@Solaar_Punk]

I've not found a use for it yet.

[@gabrieljcs11]

Impressive! Can't wait to test it out. Wolfram is amazing.

Wow. Such language. So interested.

[@RadarRSA]

Well done to Stephen and the whole Wolfram team!

[@Pages_Perfected]

This Is AWESOME

[@nwankwourf]

you sir just saved my future...college bound!!.......start......slow....clap

[@maianoguillaume]

I'm a stupid. Still: this feels like a Python/Perl/Ruby-fan explaining why Python/Perl/Ruby is so amazing. It's not the language, it's the libraries, it's the engine/compiler/runtime... or I'm even more stupid than I think.

[@nikhilverma4976]

I have the same opinion

[@aoeu256]

Yeah, but some libraries can't be made in those languages because its so hard to represent expression trees with symbols.

[@evergreen-]

@@aoeu256 this thing is literally written in C

[@pikl2r]

This is huge. Senior Wolfram, thank you!

[@WilliamJonesGD]

This blew my mind somewhat

[@samioam]

The video is SYMBOLIC!

[@RichardOlsen]

Absolutely amazing...

[@willrich45]

Richard! Yes...amazing.

[@EdwardWeissbard]

Amazing process to see!

[@FloppyDobbys]

Truly next level programming

[@life_score]

Simply awesome!

[@manosprotonotarios5187]

very nice idea to make us activate camera and then having to do a google search on how to release the camera from mathematica! - wolfram alpha did not return the release instructions; google search did though :)

[@jelkeahlavensosh9021]

MIND. BLOWN.

[@Sleepwalk3rr]

This is so amazing How have I not heard of this 🤯

[@StevenKellyMCC]

What would be an elegant FizzBuzz solution in the Wolfram Language? Given its focus on numbers and lists it should do well.

[@bobgibilaro]

What IDE do you use for this? Does Wolfram provide one for free, or is there a plugin to Eclipse or something like that?

[@DonkeyxKong93]

I am not a programer but I took a c++ class last semester and this looks cool but really confusing I wonder how useful it will actually be. I used wolfram to help me check if I did math problems right but this new language is not what I used.

[@agush22]

wow this is amazing!

[@toyuniverses]

I think Mathematica and these extensions are truly amazing, but I am dismayed at Wolfram taking credit for everything. This was almost all done by a very smart team of people who are invisible.

[@Ksilisab]

This looks awesome.

[@EdWiebe]

I'm intrigued.

[@DrayseSchneider]

The library for this language must absolutely immense and it seems rather complex. Wow...

[@pagarus10]

I see this is available for the Raspberry Pi. That gives me a project for my Pi. www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/

[@EdWiebe]

I think it's all accessed through the Wolfram Alpha API though I'm not sure yet how it works. I hope to explore it in more detail soon.

[@user-ob7sm1pb9n]

WONDERFUL! how does it so fast

[@The2468101214161]

This is awesome!

[@dakotawixom]

This is going to change the world. Hands down.

[@druvithlgowda1945]

this is literally magic!!!

[@retro-meister]

incredible

[@WilliamWhitwell]

Putting this on my ongoing list of things to learn more about.

[@edrist]

Arguably the best and most complete program in the world.

[@ikbo]

very cool. but how do you get started? maybe i missed it but i don't see a link to SDK or libraries on reference.wolfram.com/language/.

[@HugeDrumbot]

I work in NLP, and this is the biggest deal of all deals.

[@supernewuser]

Things are going to start changing very quickly.

[@pcguy2]

THIS IS AMAZING!