RE: Workbench - any use to me?
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- Subject: [mg79527] RE: [mg79490] Workbench - any use to me?
- From: "Owen, HL \(Hywel\)" <h.l.owen at dl.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:40:50 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Tim, We use Workbench extensively, but not really for Mathematica as it's turned out. We've found Workbench to be very useful as a front-end for writing multi-language code (we use Python, Fortran and Mathematica in a mixed environment for numerical simulation), and use it as a front-end for a Subversion server to keep track of the various versions of our designs (you need a free plugin for that); Workbench is really good for the latter. Hywel > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Birks [mailto:pystab at hotmail.com] > Sent: 27 July 2007 11:08 > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg79490] Workbench - any use to me? > > > Having read many recent posts about getting hold of the new > version of Workbench, I'm wondering whether I should get it > too. (I have a Premier Service subscription, and the download > email is currently sitting in my > inbox.) The details on the Wolfram website somehow don't > communicate what the value of the software would be for me. I > am not a "software developer", but I use Mathematica a lot > for solving numerical modelling problems and visualising data > in my academic research (physics/photonics). Some of the code > I write is long and complicated. My knowledge of Mathematica > is not deep; I use the bits I know essentially as a > programming language. I don't write code for other people to use. > > Is Workbench likely to make it easier for me to work with > Mathematica? Has anyone in a similar situation to me found it > valuable, or not? Is it worth my while downloading, > installing and learning to use, even if it's free? > > T. > > > > >