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Did mathematica invent the notebook format? Just curious..
by anidh 7y ago
Did mathematica invent the notebook format? Just curious..
- acidburnNSA 7y agoLooks like a yes according to this page at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notebook_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notebook_interface
- mistrial9 7y agoMathematica certainly pushed the Notebook format as a fundamental feature, with WYSIWIG math that no one else had ..."Invented" is pretty hard to say honestly, but the popularization and technical polish, absolutely yes
- jamesbrock 7y agoYes, my understanding is that Theodore Gray invented the "computational notebook" for Mathematica in the 90s. Here is the best writeup of the history of the notebook that I've ever read. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scie...
- mistrial9 7y agoquick look at Wikipedia shows Mathematica: "Initial release June 23, 1988;" Mathematica took at least a year or more to write.. so that goes back perhaps to 1986.. 90s is way off...
- kryptiskt 7y agoMathCAD had a WYSIWYG notebook in the same time frame, late 80s, but I have no idea which of them was first with it. It's possible that it was neither.