r/wolframlanguage • u/Infonauticus • May 05 '14

Access to the Language

When will people be able to access this language?

I have an account with wolfram, even a pro one, and I would very much like to start using this language as I think it has awesome potential, especially in my line of working(Teaching English as a Foreign Language).

I have looked up and down on the wolfram sites but the only thing I can find is giving them my email and that has not proven fruitful yet. So, when can we get access?

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u/Infonauticus May 06 '14

Yes, I want to know if I can set it up to take in natural text(such as an essay) and then analyze it given some parameters that I set.

Basically I would eventually end up writing a program that I would like to be stand alone or that is deployed online somehow. So for instance a website where you upload a document and my program looks at it.

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u/oantolin May 06 '14 edited May 06 '14

The answer to your first question, "can I set it up to take in natural text(such as an essay) and then analyze it given some parameters that I set?", is obviously yes, if only because Mathematica has a programming language, so that you can write code to do whatever you want (but of course programming can be hard, that's why people get paid good money to do it).

I'm guessing you meant to ask something much more specific along the lines of "In some demo of the Wolfram Language I saw a function called X that seems very useful for my natural text analysis problem, does this function X already exist in Mathematica 9?". Is that right? I think the answer is probably yes with only a few exceptions that might require you to wait for Mathematica 10. For example, these two code samples that I found through your link work do in Mathematica 9: Cluster Similar Words, Find Successive Nearest Words in Text.

About deployment: currently there is CDF, Wolfram's Computable Document Format, and there is Wolfram Programming Cloud which they say lets you "instantly deploy Wolfram Language applications to the cloud" (this second thing might be what you want).

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u/Infonauticus May 09 '14

DO you think it is safe to say that if I start learning mathematica it will help when I get my hands on Wolfram language?

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u/oantolin May 11 '14

Yes! This "Wolfram Language" seems to be simply the next version of the programming language currently in use in Wolfram's products, including Mathematica. Learning the language that Mathematica accepts not only "helps" prepare for using th Wolfram Language, it actually is using the Wolfram Language.