LISP / APL Root in Wolfram Mathematica
LISP in Mathematica
- [Nov. 1986: The Mathematica language begins to take shape… https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/scrapbook/1986/02/02/prewri_firstweeks-2/]
- https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/scrapbook/
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APL in Mathematica
Mathematica becoming WolframLang
What Programing Language is Mathematica/WolframLang Written In
A big early decision was what language SMP should be written in. Macsyma was written in LISP, and lots of people said LISP was the only possibility. But a young physics graduate student named Rob Pike convinced me that C was the “language of the future”, and the right choice. (Rob went on to do all sorts of things, like invent the Go language.) And so it was that early in 1980, the first lines of C code for SMP were written.
2021-10-25 from [There Was a Time before Mathematica… By Stephen Wolfram. At https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/06/there-was-a-time-before-mathematica/ ]
[We've Come a Long Way in 30 Years (But You Haven't Seen Anything Yet!) By Stephen Wolfram. At https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2018/06/weve-come-a-long-way-in-30-years-but-you-havent-seen-anything-yet/ ]
Mar 9, 2016
Computer History Museum