We can make the code more efficient by precomputing things.
There are certainly lots of bells and whistles that we can add to this. We just specify a symbolic API function-then deploy it to the cloud:Īnd now from anywhere on the web, if we call this API by going to the appropriate URL, our Wolfram Language code will run in the Wolfram Cloud-and we’ll get a result back on the web, in this case as a PNG: And that’s very straightforward to do in the Wolfram Language. One way we can do that is to make a web API. Now what can we do with it? Well, this is one of the big things about the Wolfram Programming Cloud: it lets us use the Wolfram Language to deploy the function to the cloud. (Yes, that design discipline is what I personally have spent a fair fraction of the past three decades of my life on.)īut OK, so we’ve got a function that does something. What’s great about the Wolfram Language is that all this-and much much more-is built in, and the language is designed so that all these pieces fit perfectly together. There’s a bit of machine learning, some data about human languages and about countries, some typesetting, and finally some image processing. It’s interesting to see what we’ve got going on here. It took me about 3 minutes to write a little function to do this, using image processing: But now let’s say that we want to make a custom graphic, in which we programmatically superimpose a language code on the flag. We’re obviously already making pretty serious use of the knowledge-based character of the Wolfram Language. Notebooks in the Wolfram Programming Cloud can mix text and code and anything else, so it’s easy to document what you’re doing: Now we have to find the largest country where it’s spoken: Like let’s say you want to build a piece of code that takes text, figures out what language it’s in, then shows an image based on the flag of the largest country where it’s spoken.įirst, you might want to try out the machine-learning language classifier built into the Wolfram Language: When you type something, you can immediately run it, and see the result in the notebook. You’ll get what we call a notebook (yes, we invented those more than 25 years ago, for Mathematica). Just go to the Wolfram Programming Cloud in any web browser, log in, and press New. How does it work? Well, you should try it out! It’s incredibly simple to get started. The Wolfram Programming Cloud is an application of the Wolfram Language-specifically for programming, and for creating and deploying cloud-based programs. The Wolfram Language, as I have explained elsewhere, is a new type of programming language: a knowledge-based language, whose philosophy is to build in as much knowledge about computation and about the world as possible-so that, among other things, as much as possible can be automated. I’ve been working toward this for nearly 30 years, gradually building up the technology stack that is needed-at first in Mathematica, later also in Wolfram|Alpha, and now in definitive form in the Wolfram Language. My goal with the Wolfram Language in general-and Wolfram Programming Cloud in particular-is to redefine the process of programming, and to automate as much as possible, so that once a human can express what they want to do with sufficient clarity, all the details of how it is done should be handled automatically. And I am excited that today we have what I think is another historic moment: the launch of Wolfram Programming Cloud-the first in a sequence of products based on the new Wolfram Language. Twenty-six years ago today we launched Mathematica 1.0.
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