Stephen Wolfram has been
working on computing language paradigms for nearly thirty years. His
products are well known in scientific and engineering circles. The
company’s Mathematica was first released in 1988, and in its latest
incarnation is a very powerful computational engine, now based on the
Wolfram Language. Last month at a South by Southwest keynote, he gave a
long demo highlighting the many things you can do with the Wolfram
language. Wolfram now aims to bridge the power of its computation engine
to the vast stores of data that exist on the Internet.
Think of
this idea as a very powerful general purpose API that can harness a
trove of information on the Internet, and use it in very creative ways.
Unlike other Web APIs, it doesn’t require you to learn REST or JSON and
JavaScript or C#. Instead, it is a very English-like function based
language, designed for relatively normal people who may not know much
about coding.
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