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Wolfram seems to have a penchant for hyperbole. However, at the time, that was likely true. My understanding is that v1 of Mathematica really was just a rewrite of Macsyma in C.


I suspect you are thinking of SMP, which was Wolfram's first attempt at a symbolic language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_Manipulation_Program




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