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Physicists take great pride in their ability to perform back-of-an-envelope-calculations to obtain order of magnitude estimates of otherwise elaborate and time-consuming problem solutions. Interactive programming systems and languages were born out of the desire to use computers to enlarge that envelope by several orders of magnitude.
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Reinfelds, J. (1995). Interactive Computer Languages: Past and Future of Sigma. In: Letessier, J., Gutbrod, H.H., Rafelski, J. (eds) Hot Hadronic Matter. NATO ASI Series, vol 346. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1945-4_8
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