And a Pi is small and cheap enough that I can put it almost anywhere. "For a start, it's easy to connect devices to a Pi. "Raspberry Pi.encourages me to try a new style of real-world-connected computing," Wolfram said.
With the Raspberry Pi move, Wolfram also is aiming to find Wolfram Language uses such as Raspberry Pi weather stations and logging location data that are more likely to appeal to the tinkerers. It also could give Mathematica, a fairly academic product, more modern cachet. 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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