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Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ... by analog31 on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:42PM (#13216983)
That's a good question. I've built systems that boot into a command prompt, and booting into emacs wouldn't be too big a step away from that. But what always seems to happen is that after a while the nostalgia wears off and I remember why I like my Jupyter.

I guess it's the REPL-on-steroids nature of Jupyter that I like. Also, having inline matplotlib graphs is pretty killer.

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Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ... by taeric on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:48PM (#13217016)
If you haven't, check out org mode in emacs. It can also inline graphs easily. With ready to go bindings for Python, graphviz, gnuplot, and R. (C-c C-x C-v will show charts inline with default bindings.)

My favorite is grabbing logs with a shell block. Reshaping with elisp or Python, and then charting with gnuplot. All in one file with an iterative workflow.

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