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Re: About programming Mathematica [Newbie question]

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• Subject: [mg32690] Re: About programming Mathematica [Newbie question]
• From: "Albert REINER" <Use-Author-Address-Header at [127.1]>
• Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 03:41:52 -0500 (EST)
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...
> emacs (with a .m ext) and typed the filename in the Octave command line. Not
> exactly sophisticated, but it was easy. What would the comparable
> Mathematica technique? Surely it cannot be to do a function[] := (and then
...

Well, at least on an OS like Unix you also have the CLI Mathematica,
usually something like /usr/local/bin/math. So: write your definitions
in a file, save that, and pipe it through math. Unfortunately, the
formatting of the output is not truely luxurious.

Albert.