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IainB:
There is a really interesting post on the history behind Mathematica, on Stephen Wolfram's blog: There Was a Time before Mathematica …

Though I had used Mathematica only briefly and experimentally a while back, I had absolutely no idea of its history.
Mathematica is a clever invention. My main exposure to what you might call mathematical programming languages previously had been things like - for example - FORTRAN, APL - used in the fields of financial modelling, econometric modelling, weather system modelling, general mathematical programming/modelling (e.g., linear programming), and finite element analysis and mesh models. That is, nothing much like Mathematica.

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