I’m a great believer in the importance of programming as a central component of education. And I’m excited that with the Wolfram Language I think we finally have a powerful programming language worthy of the next generation.

In effect, this is a technology preview: it’s an early, unfinished, glimpse of the Wolfram Language. Quite soon the Wolfram Language is going to start showing up in lots of places, notably on the web and in the cloud. But I’m excited that the timing has worked out so that we’re able to give the Raspberry Pi community-with its emphasis on education and invention-the very first chance to put the Wolfram Language into action. 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. Last week I wrote about our large-scale plan to use new technology we’re building to inject sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything.

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