Related story: Stephen Wolfram (the "inventor" of Mathematica talked at my university many years ago about an early version of Mathematica. It was probably version 2 or 3 at that point.)
He noted that Mathematica was a programming language (but different than imperative languages in a lot of ways) and said "but if I said that I created a new programming language, people would string me up because there are too many already" (or something like that.) He concluded, "that's why we call Mathematica 'A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer'".
He noted that Mathematica was a programming language (but different than imperative languages in a lot of ways) and said "but if I said that I created a new programming language, people would string me up because there are too many already" (or something like that.) He concluded, "that's why we call Mathematica 'A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer'".
It got a huge laugh.