On Dec 4, 2009, at 9:31 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > 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.
Oh, that's what you mean. Still, I don't see any reason the notebook would be worse. I've let things run overnight in the notebook, and @parallel works there too. >>> 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. True, that would be a nice feature. Clicking on the "text" link is a good start. - Robert -- 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
