There's a "For programming language experts" page[1], which describes the language as: > The Wolfram Language is first and foremost an evolution of the symboli

There's a "For programming language experts" page[1], which describes the language as: > The Wolfram Language is first and foremost an evolution of the symbolic language developed for Mathematica over the course of more than 25 years. But it's considerably more than that—adding the knowledge, knowledge representation and natural language abilities of Wolfram|Alpha, as well as a new symbolic deployment mechanism created with the Wolfram Cloud. This is followed by a "Buzzword Compliance" section, which lives up to its name, but describes some of the features of the language [1] http://www.wolfram.com/language/for-experts/ http://www.wolfram.com/language/for-experts/