![]() ![]() And exposing students to new software and programming tools is a time-honored strategy to cultivate the next generation of customers. But giving it away could make sense: Comparatively feeble Raspberry Pi machines are hardly likely to cut into sales of Mathematica on the workstations and laptops that paying customers use. Mathematica is ordinarily expensive - even the home version costs more than 10 times a Raspberry Pi, and the professional version is something like two orders of magnitude more costly than the tiny computer. They are of course not very powerful: Wolfram warns that Mathematica's graphical interface can be "sluggish." But the command-line interface is snappy, he said, and the machine is still vastly faster than those on which Mathematica got its start 25 years. ![]() Raspberry Pi machines - naked circuit boards that run a version of Linux from an SD Card - are geared for the hardware hacker crowd that's bubbling up in high-tech circles. Those grand aspirations, to be sure, but they're nothing compared to how Wolfram introduced the Wolfram Language last week: "If we're forming a kind of global brain with all our interconnected computers and devices, then the Wolfram Language is the natural language for it." ![]()
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