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Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science by sorenjan on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:38AM (#18346606)
This looks a lot like the Jupyter extension [0], which is made by a Microsoft employee and was last updated before the summer. I really like the cell format of Jupyter (inspired by Matlab I presume), I don't really want to select the code before I run it. Will Microsoft support both extensions? I would like support for actual notebooks as well, for when I want to mix text, code, and figures but without having to work in a browser.

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayam...

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Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science by williamstein on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:25PM (#18347067)
> (inspired by Matlab I presume)

I think Jupyter is inspired by Mathematica (and Macsyma) notebooks, not Matlab... Source: Fernando Perez started IPython, very much inspired by Mathematica (he was switching from Mathematica to Python). Then Alex Clemesha and I created the Sage notebook in 2007, partly inspired by discussions and demos from IPython developers, and also very much inspired by Mathematica (Alex Clemesha, a physics student, was also a heavy Mathematica user). Alex then made knoboo in 2008 https://github.com/knoboo/knoboo), which is another notebook that inspired the Jupyter notebook implementation.

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Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science by sorenjan on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:49PM (#18347277)
I was referring to the cell mode, not notebooks. In Matlab you create a new cell by starting a line with two comment characters (%%), in the Jupyter extension you use #%%. You can then run the current cell with ctrl+enter, no need for selecting anything.

https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2008/01/07/ive-got-som...

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Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science by garyfirestorm on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:34PM (#18347142)
I think Spyder is inspired by Matlab https://www.spyder-ide.org/
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Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science by pavanagrawal123 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:56PM (#18347350)
in my fork here: https://github.com/pavanagrawal123/VSNotebooks I'm almost done with cell support.
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