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Re: About programming Mathematica [Newbie question]

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  • Subject: [mg32672] Re: About programming Mathematica [Newbie question]
  • From: <emueller at ybkim.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 03:41:23 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Ohio State University
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You can run mathematica without the front end.  On a unix system (which I
assume your using) just type

math <<input.m >>output.out

and the output will appear in output.out.

Mathematica's front end is however very good.  One of the strengths of
Mathematica is being able to interact with it. 

Erich

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Wyvern wrote:

> Hi. I'm new to Mathematica and I'm having some trouble understanding what
> metaphor it uses for programming. I've used Octave a bit (I did a simple
> simulation of a pursuit problem) and, in Octave, I simply made a file in
> 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
> some operations) in a notebook. That would mean that I'd have to do cut and
> paste into a new cell to make any changes, which would certainly be a hassle
> compared  to switching windows and doing c-x c-s, then re-executing inside
> Octave. Surely there is a more elegant solution, something more
> self-contained?
> 
> One might ask, if Octave is so darn wonderful, why not do it there? Well,
> it's not very user-friendly, and the whole point of this exercise that I
> need to program is to get familiar with a tool like Mathematica. (I need to
> solve a Hungarian method 10x10 matrix problem.)
> 
> If you can point me the right way as regards to programming, I'm pretty sure
> I can throw together an algorithm, but if you could direct me to an
> algorithm for determining the optimal system for finding zero-covering
> lines, I would be very grateful.
> 
> Please forgive the obviousness of the solution to my problem... I only got
> this software recently.
> 
> Wyvern
> 
> 
> 
> 



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