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From: dan@uiucmath.math.uiuc.edu (Daniel R. Grayson)
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Subject: Re: Mathematica written in C++
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Date: 15 Feb 89 18:20:24 GMT
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>..."Mathematica"...is written in an "object-oriented extention of the C
>langauge."  does anyone know whether this is C++?

No, it is not C++.  It is something we wrote ourselves, and is vaguely
similar to C++.