Tweet programming

You can now program by tweeting snippets of Wolfram Language code to their Tweet-a-Program bot, @WolframTaP. To test it out, I tweeted:

@wolframtap NestList[Subsuperscript[#, #, #] &, o, 6]

— Jason Kottke (@jkottke) September 19, 2014

And got back:

.@jkottke (More info: http://t.co/HBUuaZOB3w) pic.twitter.com/ylYxi5lTJQ

— Tweet-a-Program (@wolframtap) September 19, 2014

Cool!

• programming
• Twitter
• Wolfram Language

Wolfram Language demo

Stephen Wolfram (of Mathematica and A New Kind of Science fame) says the upcoming Wolfram Language is his company’s “most important technology project yet”.

We call it the Wolfram Language because it is a language. But it’s a new and different kind of language. It’s a general-purpose knowledge-based language. That covers all forms of computing, in a new way.

There are plenty of existing general-purpose computer languages. But their vision is very different — and in a sense much more modest — than the Wolfram Language. They concentrate on managing the structure of programs, keeping the language itself small in scope, and relying on a web of external libraries for additional functionality. In the Wolfram Language my concept from the very beginning has been to create a single tightly integrated system in which as much as possible is included right in the language itself.

The demo video is a little mind-melting in parts:

Not sure if this will take off or not, but the idea behind it all is worth exploring.

• programming
• Stephen Wolfram
• Wolfram Language