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How does that entire article not mention Theo Gray's 1988 Mathematica notebooks as the motivation? Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica

• maliker 5y ago
  It was clearly the original invention. I think what Fernando added was an open source implementation of the same ideas. And now I see Jupyter notebooks everywhere and never see a Mathematica notebook.
  • taeric 5y ago
    Yeah... This is tough. I think Mathematica and Matlab are both far more powerful than most in our industry realize. But competing with open source is getting harder every day.
• spoonjim 5y ago
  You get the money or the legacy. Two men, two different choices. The world needs both types.