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Wolfram Language Demo Impresses

Posted by Soulskill on from the lingua-mathematica dept.

theodp writes "The devil will be in the details, but if you were stoked about last November's announcement of the Wolfram programming language, you'll be pleased to know that a just-released dry-but-insanely-great demo delivered by Stephen Wolfram does not disappoint. Even if you're not in love with the syntax or are a FOSS devotee, you'll find it hard not to be impressed by Wolfram's 4-line solution to a traveling salesman tour of the capitals of Western Europe, 6-line camera-capture-to-image-manipulation demo, or 2-line web crawling and data visualization example. And that's just for starters. So, start your Raspberry Pi engines, kids!"

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  1. A picture is worth a thousand words... by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A picture is worth a thousand words, but most sets of 1000 words can't be succinctly described by a single picture.

    Similarly, while I'm sure that you can write a few lines of Wolfram and do amazing things, I wonder how often you can set out to do an amazing thing and end up with a few lines of Wolfram. Maybe the answer is "pretty often", which would be wonderful. But I'm waiting to hear from some outside users.

  2. A traveling salesman built-in is cool I guess... by spinninggears · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So we don't count the lines of code behind the "FindShortestTour" function?

  3. It looks like a very nice library by lisaparratt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It looks like a very nice library.

    Doesn't really say very much about the power of the language at all, though.