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10 projects to try on your Raspberry Pi using this unusual programming language
Coding club body CoderDojo has put together a guide to projects you can try out using the Wolfram Language.
If you recently bought a Raspberry Pi and are wondering what to do with it, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and CoderDojo have published 10 projects you can try using the Wolfram Language.
The Wolfram Language is different from your typical programming language, in that has a large number of built-in functions for carrying out high-level tasks, such as looking up stock prices or classifying images for facial recognition.
Language creator Stephen Wolfram has explained what he considers sets the language apart.
"It's a new kind of thing. It's what I call a knowledge-based language, it's a language where a vast amount of knowledge about how to do computations and about the world is built right into the language," he said.
"So, right within the language there are primitives for processing images or laying out networks or looking up stock prices or creating interfaces or solving optimization problems."
This broad sweep of built-in capabilities gives the language abilities that aren't found in most other languages out of the gate, for example, typing currentImage[] captures the current image from the computer's camera.
As such, the language is suited to tasks such as retrieving and working with a wide range of data, everything from written language to geographic information, as well as visualizing that data using relatively few lines of code.
(Score: 2) by legont on Monday April 08 2019, @11:56PM
That was probably because a new language wanted to add some credibility for itself at the beginning. Wolfram done it without any handicap.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.