<story><title>Introducing Tweet-a-Program</title><url>http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/09/18/introducing-tweet-a-program/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpatokal</author><text>Whenever I see Wolfram&amp;#x2F;Mathematica stuff like this, I&amp;#x27;m not entirely sure if it&amp;#x27;s incredibly brilliant and will replace all computing as we know it, or completely batshit insane and impenetrable unless you&amp;#x27;ve spent 20 years learning it.  Usually I lean towards the latter though, and this is supported by the fact that I&amp;#x27;ve never seen anybody not employed by Wolfram do this kind of thing.&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/08/19/which-is-closer-local-beer-or-local-whiskey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.wolfram.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;which-is-closer-local-bee...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing Tweet-a-Program</title><url>http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/09/18/introducing-tweet-a-program/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>echoes</author><text>Ahh! I went to his SXSW talk this year and was absolutely entranced with the Wolfram language. It seemed like a real step forward in innovative thinking and actual &amp;quot;natural language&amp;quot; programming, but I was sad it&amp;#x27;s proprietary.&lt;p&gt;I think the power of it is really undervalued - using all the knowledge of the wolfram-alpha engine to create objects? Such a neat idea! Imagine if Google built a similar language based on their search engine data - the kinds of programs people could build and might accidentally build just playing around boggle the mind.</text></comment>