Re: Mathematica frustrations...
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- Subject: [mg11794] Re: Mathematica frustrations...
- From: "Tom Marchioro" <tlm@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 00:25:29 -0500
- Organization: University of Washington
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Selwyn Hollis wrote in message <6fd2dj$5ut@smc.vnet.net>... <snip> >How about this for Version 4.0: globals/internals begin with % instead >of $, and $ replaces cntrl-( and cntrl-) for beginning and ending "math >mode" (as in TeX). What the hell, why not just use TeX syntax? I doubt >that Professor Knuth would mind. And it would sure make a lot of >Mathematica users' lives a lot simpler! Ha ha ha ha! That's a good one! It will never happen, because it just makes too much sense :) Seriously, I do not know of a software company that faced with the choice between doing something "logical" and doing something that makes old versions of their own software supported transparently would not choose the latter. Mathematica is not modeled on TeX, and I'm guessing never will be. We can only hope that the Notebook -> TeX and TeX -> Notebook converters are eventually good enough to make things tolerable. TLM