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Earlier this month, the Wolfram programming language celebrated its “1/3 Century Birthday” — 33 and one-third years. It was June 23, 1988 that Stephen Wolfram‘s company Wolfram Research launched Mathematica’s first version — “with some fanfare,” Wolfram recalled in a YouTube video (embedded below) since the announcement was made at a press event in Santa Clara, California.

And in some ways what we have built owes more to 1921 than to 1955. Yes, Mathematica and everything that has come from it runs on electronic computers; they are what have allowed us to actualize what we have done. But from the beginning, the core of Mathematica — and what is now the Wolfram Language — was based on foundational ideas that transcend the specifics of their implementation.”