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A notebook GUI for a CAS it's just a fancy REPL any Lisp had since the 70-80 ;) Think Macsyma.
by anthk 2y ago
A notebook GUI for a CAS it's just a fancy REPL any Lisp had since the 70-80 ;)
Think Macsyma.
- musicale 2y agoThe GUI is a big part of what made Mathematica better (for many users) than Macsyma. But it wasn't just the GUI - it was also the document-oriented design where you could save the graphs and computational results, as well as the code to generate them, in a single document. Python had a perfectly functional REPL, but Jupyter notebooks were still a huge advancement.