It 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 t

It 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.