Wolfram Language

Wolfram Language is an open source programming language created in 1988 by Stephen Wolfram.

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The Wolfram Language, a general multi-paradigm programming language developed by Wolfram Research, is the programming language of mathematical symbolic computation program Mathematica and the Wolfram Programming Cloud. It emphasizes symbolic computation, functional programming, and rule-based programming and can employ arbitrary structures and data. It includes built-in functions for generating and running Turing machines, creating graphics and audio, analyzing 3D models, matrix manipulations, and solving differential equations. Read more on Wikipedia...

Wolfram Language website
Wolfram Language Wikipedia page
Wolfram Language first developed in Wolfram Research
file extensions for Wolfram Language include nb, m and wl
Check out the 4 Wolfram Language meetup groups on Meetup.com.
There are 610 members in the Wolfram Language subreddit
Wolfram Language appears in the TIOBE Index
There is 1 Jupyter Kernel for Wolfram Language
See also: (11 related languages)Wolfram Mathematica, APL, C, Lisp, Pascal, Prolog, Simula, Smalltalk, Julia, Mathematica, Unity

Example from Riju:

Print["Hello, world!"]

Example from hello-world:

Print["Hello World"];

Example from the Hello World Collection:

(* Hello world in Wolfram Language *)

CloudDeploy["Hello World"]

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Operator Overloading	✓		f[x_Integer] := x^2; f[x_String] := "not a number"; f[x_Symbol] := x^2;
Switch Statements	✓		Switch[expr, pattern1, code1, pattern2, code2, pattern3, code3 ]
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
MultiLine Comments	✓	(* *)	(* A comment *)
Print() Debugging	✓	Print
Comments	✓		(* A comment *)
Semantic Indentation	X
Line Comments	X

Wolfram Language - Programming language

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