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Mathematica's notebooks were released with v1.0 in 1988 and are the earliest notebook implementation I'm aware of. Jupyter isn't directly related except that th
by AlotOfReading 7y ago
Mathematica's notebooks were released with v1.0 in 1988 and are the earliest notebook implementation I'm aware of. Jupyter isn't directly related except that they were a spinoff of a project partially inspired by Mathematica, IPython.
I've been running Wolfram in my Jupyter environment lately, which is a nice setup to do quick analysis without the hell is Mathematica licensing.
- prepend 7y agoI thought I read something about how notebooks were based on Mathematica, but couldn’t find the article or source. I think it’s fine that wolfram invented it, but it would be more impactful how more common and certainly more approachable techniques could further the computational essay.
- delhanty 7y agoSee this [0] historical retrospective of IPython (the forerunner of Jupyter) in 2012 by its originator Fernando Pérez: >Let's go back to the beginning: when I started IPython in late 2001, I was a graduate student in physics at CU Boulder, and had used extensively first Maple, then Mathematica, both of which have notebook environments. I also used Pascal (earlier) then C/C++, but those two (plus IDL for numerics) were the interactive environments that I knew well, and my experience with them shaped my views on what a good system for everyday scientific computing should look like. In particular, I was a heavy user of the Mathematica notebooks and liked them a lot. [0] http://blog.fperez.org/2012/01/ipython-notebook-historical.html http://blog.fperez.org/2012/01/ipython-notebook-historical.h...
- vbuwivbiu 7y agoSmalltalk's workspaces go back to 1980