Re: books on writing packages
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- Subject: [mg56664] Re: books on writing packages
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 05:26:16 -0400 (EDT)
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marlinswin at gmail.com wrote: > I'd like to learn to write my own packages for both research and > teaching purposes. Is there any good books or references on package > authoring? > > Thanks. > Hi, David Park probably said it all, but I would just like to emphasise that packages are really only a symbol hiding mechanism. Everything that you can write inside a package can be written without one. The advantages of using one or more packages only really kick in when you have a fair amount of code and several people are working on it. Furthermore, most people start by creating Mathematica code outside a package and package it afterwards. By the time you have written enough working code to need a package, it will probably seem fairly simple to create! Apologies if I am stating the obvious, David Bailey dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk