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Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (March 16, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Functional Design

A lot of our system is written in Wolf language, which has remained compatible over a very long period of time. Because it is a language where sort of everything is built in, there's not this giant chain of dependencies. And so I think that we know that we have a certain amount of things like Java code, we wish we didn't. We've generally tried to replace those kinds of things. But sometimes by the world evolves and people understand things differently or sort of the algorithmic space evolves and there's more things you can do.

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