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Interesting data point...

By 1988 Theo Gray also in Urbana-Champaign, had build the notebook interface for Mathematica's release that summer, which is nowadays cloned as originally iPython Notebooks then generalized as Jupyter for various languages.

This is still popular in the Mathematica version as well, and can do many things HTML browsers demonstrated years later.




Maxima existed far before iPython.


Did Maxima have a notebook interface back before Mathematica's appeared in 1988, and many years later iPython cloned it (with credit given to Theo Gray's idea) ?


Maxima it's the continuation of Macsyma.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma


I used your prompt to look into Macsyma which led me to maxima. What a great tool I just finished the 10 minute tutorial.

https://mathblog.com/a-10-minute-tutorial-for-solving-math-p...


I know that, but did it have the notebook interface like people call Jupyter nowadays, which was based on IPython which was an explicitly described honoring of Mathematica for Python?

I ask because I don't know if Macsyma had that...we had a university site license for Mathematica so in my case I never had Macsyma to play with back then.




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