Philosophy of Wolfram Language

By Xah Lee. Date: .

What is Wolfram Language

What about a programing language with the philosophy that it should do everything possible by computer with utmost ease for human use no need to have professional programer experience?

e.g. do typical things other programing language do such as manipulating strings and arrays, and network programing, shell programing, web dev etc. such as python golang java.

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include every algo ever devised when possible, and everything any software has been written to do, all these, designed so that you do not need to be a professional programer, and in one single coherent app.

LISP, was such a language with such philosophy, in 1980s. (it died due to so called AI Winter, and got derailed by industrial coders C Cpp mentality with things like object oriented programing)

Today, that is Wolfram language, aka Mathematica. Seven thousand functions builtin without loading a single library.