Wolfram Language

The Wolfram Language is a proprietary, high-level multi-paradigm programming language developed by Wolfram Research. It emphasizes symbolic computation, functional programming, and rule-based programming and can employ arbitrary structures and data. It is the programming language of the mathematical symbolic computation program Mathematica. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1988
Designed by: Stephen Wolfram
Developed by: Stephen WolframWolfram Research
Operating systems: LinuxMicrosoft WindowsmacOS
Aliases: Wolfram, Mathematica language, Mathematica, .nb, .m, .wl
File extensions: cdf, m, nb, wl, wls

Wikidata: Q15241057

Influenced by: APLCC++FortranLispPascalPrologSimulaSmalltalk

Programming paradigms: array programmingdeclarative programmingfunctional programmingmulti-paradigm programmingimperative programmingobject-oriented programming

Language types: object-based languagemulti-paradigm programming languagefunctional programming languageimperative programming languagearray programming languageinterpreted languagedeclarative programming language

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