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Re: Problem with a diagram

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  • Subject: [mg110858] Re: Problem with a diagram
  • From: ADL <alberto.dilullo at tiscali.it>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 20:33:49 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <i13tu2$7kh$1@smc.vnet.net>

David,
the reason is simply that most books on Mathematica, with the sole
purpose to astonish the readers with useless "one-liners" one page
long, never split calculations. The final effect is just to encourage
readers to do this sort of things and induce bad programming style in
Mathematica users.

ADL

On 8 Lug, 09:15, "David Park" <djmp... at comcast.net> wrote:
> One thing I don't understand is why users so often put an extensive
> calculation inside a plot statement, and then if it goes wrong they never
> think of taking it out and looking at it.
>
> ...
>
> David Park


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