Re: Mathematica 7.0.1.0 and some General Comments
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- Subject: [mg97263] Re: Mathematica 7.0.1.0 and some General Comments
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 01:07:51 -0500 (EST)
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AES wrote: > > But the idea that these results, along with all the underlying analysis, > will then also have to be "delivered" (presented, displayed, put on > screen) (and also organized, maintained, cataloged, re-purposed, > modified, edited, annotated), using (and _only_ using) Mathematica and > Mathematica notebooks, is just, in my considered opinion, an absolute > non-starter -- and a _highly_ destructive concept as well, in its impact > on the usability of Mathematica for what it's really good at (and where > it in fact really has very limited competition). > And yet, there have never been more ways for Mathematica to communicate its results with other software. It supports huge numbers of import/export formats, and programming interfaces such as J/Link. If you have a point, I think it primarily relates to documentation. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk