Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on Every Raspberry Pi

Stephen Wolfram Blog ^ | November 21, 2013 | Stephen Wolfram

[Bobalu]

Last week I wrote about our large-scale plan to use new technology we’re building to inject sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything. Today I’m pleased to announce a step in that direction: working with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, effective immediately there’s a pilot release of the Wolfram Language—as well as Mathematica—that will soon be bundled as part of the standard system software for every Raspberry Pi computer.

[Bobalu]

Yippeee! this is good news for geeks everywhere.

[SpaceBar]

Stephan Wolfram the individual is, how shall I say this tactfully... an asshole. That said, the man is brilliant, and a visionary in many ways, but has a big head. A new kind of science, really? He effectively claimed dominion over a large swath of mathematics, and mathematical philosophy without proper prior references cited. In the scientific literature area, that’s a deal killer. Hope he gets better.

[Myrddin]

I agree with your assessment. When he first arrived on the scene, his offering gave the impression of a somewhat more sophisticated flavor of a search engine. When he announced that outputs from running your inputs were his property, I promptly avoided any further interaction. Unless he has changed that term of engagement, I'm still avoiding him.

[zeestephen]

Around 30 years ago, I seem to remember that Time Magazine put him on their cover.

That was back when tens of millions of people still read the weekly news magazines, so it was a big deal.

He was at the University of Illinois back then, and he had just begun to work out his Mathematica software program.

[Pontiac]

But is his programming language really worthy of his hype?

[The Duke]

The programming language the deserves fanfare is Walter Bright’s ‘D’ programming language.

[Freeport]

Wow! But this thing has almost no horsepower for doing anything of use.

A nice toy, but I’ve got a 30 year old PC with more capability in the garage...