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Interesting data point... By 1988 Theo Gray also in Urbana-Champaign, had build the notebook interface for Mathematica's release that summer, which is nowadays
by jjtheblunt 4y ago
Interesting data point...
By 1988 Theo Gray also in Urbana-Champaign, had build the notebook interface for Mathematica's release that summer, which is nowadays cloned as originally iPython Notebooks then generalized as Jupyter for various languages.
This is still popular in the Mathematica version as well, and can do many things HTML browsers demonstrated years later.
- anthk 4y agoMaxima existed far before iPython.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoDid Maxima have a notebook interface back before Mathematica's appeared in 1988, and many years later iPython cloned it (with credit given to Theo Gray's idea) ?
- anthk 4y agoMaxima it's the continuation of Macsyma. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma
- detourdog 4y agoI used your prompt to look into Macsyma which led me to maxima. What a great tool I just finished the 10 minute tutorial. https://mathblog.com/a-10-minute-tutorial-for-solving-math-problems-with-maxima/ https://mathblog.com/a-10-minute-tutorial-for-solving-math-p...
- jjtheblunt 4y agoI know that, but did it have the notebook interface like people call Jupyter nowadays, which was based on IPython which was an explicitly described honoring of Mathematica for Python? I ask because I don't know if Macsyma had that...we had a university site license for Mathematica so in my case I never had Macsyma to play with back then.