2009/12/5 Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>: > On Dec 4, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >> just a side remark - IMHO notebooks are not designed for any kind of >> large-scope project. > > There's no reason they couldn't be. I meant a project that takes a lot of computing power (CPU/memory/disk space). I cannot but agree that for designing, e.g. exercises, notebooks are very useful, esp. combined with functionality of sagenb.notebook.
>> For the latter, you are much better off with good old scripts. >> Notebooks certainly have their own pluses, such as more interactivity >> and ease of collaboration---but not >> sharing, as was demonstrated here recently. >> Otherwise I don't really see a point of them. > > Ease of use, especially for people on Windows. I think they have > advantages for sharing as well, as I can share a notebook with someone > by posting it on a public (or personal) server, and they can go and > get an account and use it without having to even install sage. This > could be particularly nice for the classroom setting. I referred to an apparent missing feature of exporting notebook cells into a Sage script. This seems to be locking a user into using worksheets long after it's time to move over to full-blown development with scripts. Best, Dmitrii -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
