On: Toward a better programming

[lomnakkus]

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/

(edit: apparently there's some magic markup I don't yet understand.)

[pjmlp → lomnakkus]

> 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 at minute at minute 30.

Or here for Smalltalk-80, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLPiMl8XUKU