notebooks

What do we call live coding “notebooks” like jupyter?

wiki-esque with live code blocks , “notebooks”, “dynamic documents”, “malleable”.

80s – HyperCard – “The final key element in HyperCard is the script, a single code-carrying element of every object within the stack.” (en:wiki)

90s – “Mathematical Shell” from MATLAB

  • “interactive mathematical shell or executing text files”

2001 – “Notebook” – from Jupyter notebooks

  • open source all the way down (?)

2017 – “Notebook” in Javascript from Observable

2023 – “Canvas” AI – https://mistral.ai/

  • “No longer restricted to bidirectional conversations, … directly modify, edit or transform content aided … LLMs.”

2024 – “Documents” – Observable Framework 2.0

2023 – “Malleable software”