i don't think it's a DSL. its evaluation paradigm is symbolic in the same way you would say Java's paradigm is OOP, yet we wouldn't say Java is an OOP DSL even

i don't think it's a DSL. its evaluation paradigm is symbolic in the same way you would say Java's paradigm is OOP, yet we wouldn't say Java is an OOP DSL even if that's true in some technical sense in this respect i think the name "Mathematica" does a disservice to the system. originally it may have been intended for math, but in its current form it's more like a general prototyping/presentation/construction system that makes thorough use of its capacity as a research platform