Re: Wolfram User Interface Research?
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- Subject: [mg88204] Re: Wolfram User Interface Research?
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:39:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Stanford University
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In article <fv1mdf$ona$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:
> You seem to have completely missed my point. You complained about
> "abstruse" Mathematica symbols such as @, /@, @@ etc. You seem to be
> oblivious to the fact that
>
> 1. You never need to use them yourself. Each of them can be replaced
> by a much more "readable form".
> 2. TeX uses special forms such as {,$, &, %,\ and plenty of even more
> "abstruse" instructions. A typical fragment of TeX code looks like this:
>
Not sure I complained about these. In fact I routinely use a number of
them --- but also find others in fact mysterious or arcane, for me
anyway.
What I did ask for --- would still ask for --- was, first of all the
proper technical name for this class of non-alphabetical symbols or
commands or operators in Mathematica? -- what they're called as a group,
to distinguish them from alphabetical symbol names? --- so I could ask
about them properly.
Second and more important, I asked where, if anywhere, I could find (in
a single place) a short list (like perhaps a half-dozen page or less)
summarizing _all_ of these non-alphabetical operators, with a brief
statement of what each of them does, or what it's good for --- so that I
could identify ones I'd missed and decide which of these I might want to
learn more about.
I'd still be happy to have an answer to this query.
And thirdly, I frankly think it would be an interesting exercise in
interface research --- and a _useful_ one for Wolfram's interface
designers --- to have some systematic data on which of these
non-alphabetical operators are heavily used and which are seldom used,
by different categories of Mathematica users. I'd at least have an
interest in that, out of pure curiosity.
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