The chief designer of the Mathematica software platform and the Wolfram Alpha 'computation knowledge engine, Stephen Wolfram has a massive project - a new programming language which he's dubbing 'Wolfram Language'.
Stephen Wolfram has just released a demo of the Wolfram Programming language.
The programmiing language will allow developers and software engineers to program a wide variety of complex functions in a streamlined fashion, for almost every single type of hardware from PCs and smartphones to datacenters and embedded systems.
The Wolfram Language does things automatically whenever you want it to,” Wolfram wrote in a November 2013 blog posting that explained the philosophy behind the language. “Whether it’s selecting an optimal algorithm for something. Or picking the most aesthetic layout. Or parallelizing a computation efficiently. Or figuring out the semantic meaning of a piece of data. Or, for that matter, predicting what you might want to do next. Or understanding input you’ve given in natural language.”
Wolfram sayst he has worked on the language for about three decades. The code features a variety of built-in algorithms and Wolfram suggests, it can do everything from visualize Facebook data to pull down the current image from your PC’s camera.
Wolfram feels the language will change programming — and maybe the world.