This seems super exciting. I'm not sure if you could build large-scale applications with it, but I cannot wait to play around with it.
Side note: The use of "I" and "My" really irks me. I imagine many, many people made this happen and contributed to these design goals. I guess this shouldn't take away from how cool this technology is, but it definitely leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Wolfram started a startup and put his name on the door and it has been incredibly successful. No story about Wolfram appears on HN without someone complaining about his ego. Perhaps he is the Mohammed Ali of programming.
This is the other thing that's almost guaranteed to appear for some reason. I think Taliesin did a good rebuttal to it a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3974503
All of this has only a tenuous connection to the language itself, which is much more interesting to discuss. Sure, it may be the only self-named language (thought it arguably owes its name as much to the brand Wolfram Research as to Stephen, and I'd hoped they'd come up with a more creative name), but if one manages to shepherd a system like Mathematica through 25 years, one earns the right to self-name a language.
Side note: The use of "I" and "My" really irks me. I imagine many, many people made this happen and contributed to these design goals. I guess this shouldn't take away from how cool this technology is, but it definitely leaves a bad taste in my mouth.