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You know, I used Wolfram Mathematia for many years in college and even a little beyond, and I just learned today that the language is called Wolfram and the enviroment is Mathmatica.

Huh.




That’s a relatively recent change. When I first learned MMA around 1995, it was just Mathematica. It was still just Mathematica 10 years later. Then in the last decade they decided to give the language a name independent of Mathematica: I assume with the rollout of their other services/tools beyond the desktop client that use the same language.


Cool. I haven't followed the language in the last 5 years or so, so that makes me feel better.




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