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Re:Black Hole Tech? by davesque on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @05:52PM (#11163018)
I agree. I actually love Mathematica and the Wolfram Language but its main problem is the lack of any convenient ways to package it, track it in git, edit it in vim, etc. I spent some time investigating how to do that but it all just seemed really opaque and complicated. That's one of the risks of using proprietary software, I suppose.
Re:Black Hole Tech? by chm on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @08:23PM (#11163783)
You can do that with packages but not (at least not easily and conveniently) with notebooks. So basically your functions can reside in a package, but your computation has to reside inside notebooks.

It is possible to write notebooks directly in a text editor and then have them run. That just gave me an idea for a weekend project...

Re:Black Hole Tech? by davesque on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @08:41PM (#11163885)
I'm sure it's possible, but is it straight-forward how you're supposed to do this properly? And is there any way to access the Wolfram kernel from the command-line (like a python executable)?

Update: I guess I owe the Wolfram Language another look.

Re:Black Hole Tech? by chm on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:07PM (#11163992)
Re:Black Hole Tech? by davesque on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @10:15PM (#11164290)
Ahh, well alright then :). Thx for the info.