Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> writes: > Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hu...@iki.fi> writes: >>> TBH, this is the first time I'm hearing about it. I've looked it >>> up, and indeed it seems to be useful. >> >> For some reason, even people who would certainly benefit from >> Asymptote often have not heard of it. The developers do not really >> advertise. Asymptote is amazingly powerful and sophisticated. > > Then, it would help to have more practical examples compared to what > we have in > https://www.orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-asymptote.html
Absolutely. I have plenty of examples from the domains of math and computer science. >>> That said, shouldn't this be in org-contrib? Too many features in a >>> tool - featurism - may be distracting, in the sense that you focus >>> more on your tool than work at hand. >> >> I do not understand this. Why would supporting a professional-level >> graphics programming language be distracting someone from their work >> when using Org? > > That a common minimalist argument. Some people dislike the fact that > software includes features they do not personally use. Similar > arguments are often raised regarding, for example, games shipped with > Emacs. I do not see Org as a "minimalist" system. I see it as glue. I think one of the great powers of Org mode is its capability to act together with various systems, including LaTeX and a host of programming languages. I would never imagine that Org would only support the tools I use, but I expect to be positively surprised by the fact that Org will support, out of the box, something that I am not using now but will be using in the future. > I disagree in this particular case. Having ob-asymptote.el is not a > featurism - I would not expect people to play around a full new > programming language just because ob-language.el is in Org. The > barrier of entry is too high to make it destructing. I am not sure I can interpret your text correctly. But if you are saying that builtin support for Asymptote will not lower the threshold of its use among Org users, I would ask the following questions: - How many Org users are already capable of programming? - How many Org users prefer code-based representations to other forms? All the best, Jarmo
