Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language [video]
First, as random internet commentator guy, I want to thank Stephen for his contribution here. This and NKS are incredible.Second, I keep seeing videos and articles about Wolfram Alpha and am always left scratching my head kinda going "WTF?"So it's a knowledge-based purely symbolic programming language? Can it play Flappy Bird? Power the next cool startup? Give me an answer to a question I might have today? I've been to alpha a couple of times. Never seemed to be able to get the questions right to get the answers I wanted.I don't mean that to be negative. My point is that any audience is going to have a thousand different needs and viewpoints, most of which will probably seem trivial to Stephen Wolfram. Most new technologies get past this hurdle by open-sourcing. That way there's a thousand experiments, and over time a few of them are bound to give all of us little nerds a gleam in our eye one way or the other.The other way of doing this, where you have a single point of creation describing to the world how cool it is? It is limited to things that have a single terrific property that everybody can agree on.I'm not sure that is the case here. Still -- awesome stuff. Can't wait to watch this evolve.