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Smug lisp weenie complains commercially successful system not implemented in lisp, news at 11. The story isn't about Mathematica, its about SMP, which predated
by programnature 13y ago
Smug lisp weenie complains commercially successful system not implemented in lisp, news at 11.
The story isn't about Mathematica, its about SMP, which predated Mathematica by about 8 years. Wolfram was 20 at the time.
Back at Caltech, Rob Pike convinced Wolfram that C was the future and that was a good thing.