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I guess Stephen et. al. noticed that the Jupyter and RStudio type stuff is really a pretty good idea. edit: ok, i was being too flippant in the above. I do k

by ska 7y ago

I guess Stephen et. al. noticed that the Jupyter and RStudio type stuff is really a pretty good idea. edit: ok, i was being too flippant in the above. I do know the history although as I understand it, the notebook type interface was developed in a few places in the 80s, mathematica being one of them, maple soft another - and all of these influenced by Macsyma and related earlier systems but taking advantage of the improved graphic capabilites as they became available. Not that I was watching this unfold in the early 80s so I might have that wrong. My flippancy was related to the typical Wolfram self-aggrandizing waffle in the PR approach, and the fact that the most useful part of this (the announced) is arguably deployment to standard web tooling, which a number of at least similar space systems have been doing for the last several years.

watersb 7y ago
Mathematica introduced the notebook UI / language kernel design 30 years ago.
- mirekrusin 7y ago
  He should open-source this whole thing, create marketplace/appstore for plugins around it for whatever needs to be proprietary.
  - steve19 7y ago
    Not going to happen while Wolfram runs the company.
  - wrnr 7y ago
    It's still early days but I'm working on it: https://github.com/wrnrlr/foxtrot https://github.com/wrnrlr/foxtrot
  - knolax 7y ago
    IIRC wasn't one of the design philosophies of Mathematica that everything you need is a part of the core language, eg. you don't need libraries.
  - pacala 7y ago
    He should open-source this whole thing ... and start selling click-bait ads ... with a heavy dose of surveillance ... like the rest of us do.
vasili111 7y ago
Notebooks appear first at Wolfram Mathematica and after in Jupyter and RStudio.
jjtheblunt 7y ago
I can't tell if you knew iPython / Jupyter were recreations of the 1988 Mathematica Notebook interface, for Python. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica

by ska 7y ago

watersb 7y ago

Mathematica introduced the notebook UI / language kernel design 30 years ago.

mirekrusin 7y ago
He should open-source this whole thing, create marketplace/appstore for plugins around it for whatever needs to be proprietary.
- steve19 7y ago
  Not going to happen while Wolfram runs the company.
- wrnr 7y ago
  It's still early days but I'm working on it: https://github.com/wrnrlr/foxtrot https://github.com/wrnrlr/foxtrot
- knolax 7y ago
  IIRC wasn't one of the design philosophies of Mathematica that everything you need is a part of the core language, eg. you don't need libraries.
- pacala 7y ago
  He should open-source this whole thing ... and start selling click-bait ads ... with a heavy dose of surveillance ... like the rest of us do.

vasili111 7y ago

Notebooks appear first at Wolfram Mathematica and after in Jupyter and RStudio.

jjtheblunt 7y ago

I can't tell if you knew iPython / Jupyter were recreations of the 1988 Mathematica Notebook interface, for Python. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica