Wolfram Alpha and Wolfram Language

Questions
1

A naive question from someone who did asembly language 45 years ago.

Not conceptually, but from a “how to…”, how does one incorporate Wolfram Alpha using Wolfram language? Thanks, Neil

2

Is this the sort of information that you are curious about: how to call WolframAlpha programatically from the Wolfram Language?

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WolframAlpha.html

3

Yes David and thank you. I’ll try some examples later today. Thanks again. Neil

4

Also, you can type == before your query, and then your query will be parsed by Wolfram Alpha.

5

In addition to the good answers above you should take a look at Entity based computation, for example:

EntityValue[Entity["Bridge", "GoldenGate"], "LongestSpan"]
(*Quantity[1280, "Meters"]*)

See Knowledge Representation & Access. That’s the latest architecture that brings W|A knowledge into WL. WL is a knowledge-based language. You should take a look also at:

Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to the Wolfram Language

6

Thanks for the good advice..