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by lambdamore 2533 days ago
I think Mathematica is kind of a killer app for lisp.
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DonaldFisk 2533 days ago
Mathematica wasn't written in Lisp. You might be thinking of Macsyma.
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dreamcompiler 2533 days ago
My understanding is that Wolfram rewrote Macsyma in C but that Macsyma was his direct inspiration for Mathematica.
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