Is Wolfram Language just a rename of Mathematica?

CloudDeploy and the possibility of mobile app setup though WL sound exciting. I’m a daily user of Mathematica and grateful for it.

holy crap! when can I get a copy?!

Am I dreaming? this is awesome work.

so, where is the interpreter to play with ? :):)

I’m ghast and flabbered! Founded dumb!

I really don’t know where to start; this is a stunning achievement and I’m so excited to get my hands on it.

Just. Wow.

Interesting, but the one question that was burning in my mind the entire time was — how can I use it on my own (private) data sets. For example I might have a lot of information about my clients and would like to discover who my most valuable North American client might be.

Truly amazing. I can’t wait to try it.

One thing that keeps puzzling me is what the difference between Wolfram Language and Mathematica 10.0 is. Are you decoupling the two? Also, it seems to me that “language” is an understatement. This is more like an expert system. It knows things. Programming languages don’t know anything.

Could you please explain: how do I try to use wolfram language to crawl websites? I have found an example, but I want to edit and run it – how do I do that?

Thank you in advance!
Bayram

So how much is this going to cost us to be able to use?

As a fish taxonomist and systematist, I see the Wolfram Language is a very exciting development. It is perhaps the first computational context that may be sufficiently general and capable of facilitating the study and modeling of the natural world in an efficient manner. Mathematica already provides a framework of computational interactivity that is sufficiently general and automated enough to begin the task of building the kind of new internet that will move from simply linking static webpages with disconnected pieces of semi-structured data, such as embedded data and video, into a new world of integrating this content across the web of everything in a way that can be studied, dynamically archived, and modeled numerically.

As noted by Lord Kelvin, if you can’t express ideas in numbers, then your ideas scarcely reach the level needed to science. It is the science of managing the complexity of the consequences of human existence on fragile and rapidly changing ecosystems that is perhaps the greatest challenge facing mankind. Conventional languages and the internet, although great achievements, are simply not sufficiently integrated nor operate at a sufficiently high enough level of generality to save us from ourselves within the short time frame we may have left.

As a Mathematica user for a few years now, without sufficient formal training in either mathematics or computer science, I have struggled to learn this huge, yet immensely powerful language and its underlying principles. Because it is a huge language and because the functional/symbolic paradigm is so radically different from conventional technologies becoming fluent in the language is not yet easy to accomplish. Nonetheless, your demo incorporates a few ideas of tremendous importance to biologists that I have been striving to express in Mathematica, but existing demonstration projects, tutorials, webcasts and online help provide insufficient insight for me to yet program in Mathematica.

For example, you use a function called GeoGraphics, which could well form the basis for a tremendous number of applications within the life sciences. It seems to provide a high level model for integrating and using geographic and geophyscical data in the context of computer graphics and conformable maps that seem to be more immediately accessible to users and programmers. More information about this function could not come too soon so that a new internet of linked computable document formats can be assembled to literally model, study and manage the real world, while there is still time for humans to shift the current trajectory of global ecosystem degradation and rapid change toward one that is pointed more toward human survival rather than extinction.

To facilitate this Mathematica needs a broader and more actively interacting user base. The Woldfram Language may well provide the context that permits scientists of all kinds to build the kind of knowledge based computational engine necessary to build the dynamic interdisciplinary cooperation needed for the the scale of the task that lies before us. Keep up the good work and create more examples and set up more avenues of dialog that will facilitate user productivity and broader adoption within the scientific community and the larger web audience generally. Provide more hooks that make it easier to integrate the results of open software initiatives into the Wolfram Language.

Hopefully GeoGraphics and other high level functions will make the job of biologists and environmental scientists easier. I can’t wait to get started learning more about GeoGrahics and Classify. There is no time to waste. Hurry up and release it soon. Address the final tweaks in a subsequent revision.

As a developer since the eighties this is the first time I’ve thought “ooh, this changes a lot of things.” It’s a language for the new generation and I look forward to experimenting with it.

Excellent work. Can’t wait to try this.

How does Wolfram Language process large distributed datasets which are not publicly accessible?

Please update the list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

Pure Genius.

just wanted to note that WL is not JUST Mathematica. yes, it is the language that underlies Mathematica but it is also a stand-alone language. i have spent over 25 years writing code in WL and i have only used a mathematical function in my code one time. If you need or want to program, then you can do it with WL. and you should becuase it is awesomely cool and fun (sure, it’s extremely productive as well, but if it ain’t fun to do,i don’t do it).and you can use any programming paradigm you want (functional, procedural, declarative, object-oriented) though i personally prefer the rule-based, pattern-matching style becuase it reflects the way i think. there are few things more boring than trying to express what you want to compute to a dumb machine (it’s like having a conversation with my dog who is very cute but not real bright). i want (demand) a language that brings my computer up to my level of thinking rather than require me to bring my thinking down to the level of a piece of hardware. and the core WL language can be understood and used productively in a matter of hours – it’s really that simple as i know from teaching it to probably over a thousand people from many different fields (not just science and engineering).

Thank you for your work Dr. Wolfram.

Hello Dr. Wolfram:

I recently saw your announcement of the “Mathematica Language”. I was somewhat surprised since, of the examples I saw, they all used standard Mathematica language constructs I am already familiar with.

But as I thought about this more, I realized that the power of the language when used for data representation and integrated with curated data and W|a, is indeed very powerful.

I thought this some time ago and after reading some more, I am very interested to beta test the Wolfram Data Framework (or whatever it is called). I have been thinking about this since I made some YouTube videos about this a few years ago.

Basically what I am interested in is to hook the Mathe curated data architecture to some web services in the outside world.

Please let me know if I can work to make this be realized.

Regards..

Roger Williams
congruentialuminaire@yahoo.com
http://www.youtube.com/congruentlight
SF

I found this very interesting and looking forward to trying it. When do you think it will be released?

I believe that the first system (program, software & hardware, etc.) with which you can access a very large data set extracted from the web, analyze the data using any ad hoc method specified and (this is very important) interact with you vocally / verbally, in natural language and, in essence, discuss your data needs to get exactly the the data and analysis you want – that this will dominate the database and analysis market as soon as it is perfected. The Mathematica Language with expanded Alpha functionality brought to the point that it is the equal or better than IBM’s Jeopardy playing Watson – which IBM is moving toward market can reach this goal. I think Wolfram can take the IBM market and indeed all similar products markets…if they can deliver the spoken word, natural language interface first.