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Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language
Stephen Wolfram gives a 13-minute tour of the Wolfram Language, a symbolic, functional programming language with a built-in knowledgebase. He demos querying large datasets, interactivity and deployment.
Why HN readers recommended it
Commenters point to it as a compact, impressive demo of what the language can do.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Wolfram
- Topic
- wolfram language
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2015
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This was no where near as painful as some talks I've seen, where the speaker is programming. Like running of time, and only being half way through the talk. Live coding definitely slows down the momentum. A good example of coding demos is Stephen Wolfram …
munro on Hacker News · 2014-05
In Interactively Programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScriptFor some background on the language, check out Stephen Wolfram's intro video: [VIDEO] The demos are all pretty impressive, and putting aside the breathless marketing of the programming cloud page, this looks awesome.
jdp on Hacker News · 2014-03
In Wolfram Programming CloudStephen Wolfram's demo he referred to doesn't appear to be up yet, but this one from a couple weeks back is pretty sweet: [VIDEO]
andreyf on Hacker News · 2014-04
In Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
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