I'm inclined to see Mathematica as a term rewriting language - and those languages go way back. I remember when Mathematica was first released and thinking, "h

I'm inclined to see Mathematica as a term rewriting language - and those languages go way back. I remember when Mathematica was first released and thinking, "hmm, a commercial Macsyma"[0]. Well, technically, by the time Wolfram had SMP[1] Macsyma had gone "strictly from commercial"[2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma [1] https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/smp-symbolic-manipulation-program/ https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/smp-symbolic-man... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHCcUnm4SI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHCcUnm4SI