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Isn't the Wolfram "Language" more like a cloud computing service? Almost all of the magic they do in the demos I've seen so far seems to be just neatly wrapped
by jkldotio 11y ago
Isn't the Wolfram "Language" more like a cloud computing service? Almost all of the magic they do in the demos I've seen so far seems to be just neatly wrapped APIs to their web services. That's fair enough for those that know the predecessor languages/syntax and know what they are buying into when they use the Wolfram Language, but I wince at the thought of this being used by educational institutions or as someone's first language.
- Synaesthesia 11y agoIt was formerly just the Mathematica language - they did then add API's for their web-services, Wolfram-Alpha and renamed it Wolfram language at some point in the recent past. It's a pretty proper language on it's own, particularly for scientific/numerical work. It learnt it at University for a Physics module, and I liked it, I agree it's not the best first language though.