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Wolfram Language Demo Impresses
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!"
This article is a fine example of why I've found myself frequenting Soylent News.
Stephen Wolfram invented a New Kind of Science, that has unlocked the mysteries of the Universe. What have you done?
Hah!
No, what happened was this:
1) Hmm I need to make a slick demo
2) How about a solution to problem A
3) No, that came out ugly
4) Ok lets try problem B
5) No they won't like that either
6) OK, what problem do we have that has built-in solutions?
7) Ahh, there we go, we'll solve problem C instead.
Same difference.
Someone had to do it.