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I think it's likely R was inspired more by Mathematica's venerable notebook interface.
by kryptiskt 8y ago
I think it's likely R was inspired more by Mathematica's venerable notebook interface.
- klmr 8y agoIt was obviously inspired by many different things but the most direct genealogy is WEB [1] → noweb → Sweave → Knitr → R Markdown → R Notebooks. Mathematica’s notebook interface in turn was almost certainly also inspired (directly or indirectly) by WEB, given that this was the first literate programming tool ever created. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEB