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Mathematica may have pioneered the notebook[X], but there are imitations[1] which are arguably just as good (or better given the seeming ad-hoc nature of the Ma

Mathematica may have pioneered the notebook[X], but there are imitations[1] which are arguably just as good (or better given the seeming ad-hoc nature of the Mathematica language). [X] I don't presume to know -- it's just the first system I came into contact with which has this concept. [1] http://ipython.org/ http://ipython.org/ (edit: apparently there's some magic markup I don't yet understand.)

pjmlp 13y ago
> I don't presume to know -- it's just the first system I came into contact with which has this concept. It was already present on the Xerox PARC systems. You can see a little bit of it here about Symbiotics, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=932 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=932 at minute at minute 30. Or here for Smalltalk-80, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLPiMl8XUKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLPiMl8XUKU