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It's noteworthy that Mathematica invented the notebook UI that Jupyter ended up popularizing. It has some strengths, but since its syntax highlighting is coupl

It's noteworthy that Mathematica invented the notebook UI that Jupyter ended up popularizing. It has some strengths, but since its syntax highlighting is coupled to the kernel state it didn't have an undo function for the longest time. Also as big vim fan it's disappointing to not being able to use your favorite editor.

v9v 3y ago
Emacs has EIN which allows you to edit and run Jupyter Notebooks. Combining that with a vim keybindings mode like Evil, you can use vim bindings on notebooks. Edit: The github page for EIN says that development has stopped. Despite this, I was able to edit a notebook with only minor inconveniences very recently.
- struanr 3y ago
  An actively developed alternative is emacs-jupyter, which allows you to use an org file similarly to a notebook.
noneoftheabove 3y ago
No. Incorrect. There was a precursor that had the idea Of notebook but didn’t call it that. By your logic Wolfram invented symbolic computation, Computational complexity and many other things. Let’s Not go down that route please.
- rsecora 3y ago
  Mathcad has the notebook metaphor (calculations embedded in live formatted documents) by 1986. Mathcad predates Mathematica by 1 year. [1] [1] Mathcad 2.0 Ad from 1987, the oldest I have found in 10 min. https://books.google.es/books?id=sc4TnHAYBSUC&pg=PA42 https://books.google.es/books?id=sc4TnHAYBSUC&pg=PA42
  - noneoftheabove 3y ago
    Thanks for looking into it. Yes this is correct. Knowing what I hear about wolfram, even if there is a record in history wolfram claims He is the first.
- mr_mitm 3y ago
  I may have been incorrect because it's hard to know about everything and I have no issue to stand corrected, but please do not attack my logic by building strawmen. You could have simply stated the name of that predecessor, ideally with a link. The basis my comment for this was this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22278637 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22278637 Unfortunately the Atlantic article is now paywalled.
  - kencausey 3y ago
    Archive from 20220805: https://archive.is/4l509 https://archive.is/4l509
  - noneoftheabove 3y ago
    Don’t trust the PR coming out of Wolfram. His wiki entry was paid for, his puppets on the net do the rest propogating disinformation And misinformation. He has connection to writers from New York Times and others.
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v9v 3y ago

Emacs has EIN which allows you to edit and run Jupyter Notebooks. Combining that with a vim keybindings mode like Evil, you can use vim bindings on notebooks. Edit: The github page for EIN says that development has stopped. Despite this, I was able to edit a notebook with only minor inconveniences very recently.

struanr 3y ago
An actively developed alternative is emacs-jupyter, which allows you to use an org file similarly to a notebook.

noneoftheabove 3y ago

No. Incorrect. There was a precursor that had the idea Of notebook but didn’t call it that. By your logic Wolfram invented symbolic computation, Computational complexity and many other things. Let’s Not go down that route please.

rsecora 3y ago
Mathcad has the notebook metaphor (calculations embedded in live formatted documents) by 1986. Mathcad predates Mathematica by 1 year. [1] [1] Mathcad 2.0 Ad from 1987, the oldest I have found in 10 min. https://books.google.es/books?id=sc4TnHAYBSUC&pg=PA42 https://books.google.es/books?id=sc4TnHAYBSUC&pg=PA42
- noneoftheabove 3y ago
  Thanks for looking into it. Yes this is correct. Knowing what I hear about wolfram, even if there is a record in history wolfram claims He is the first.
mr_mitm 3y ago
I may have been incorrect because it's hard to know about everything and I have no issue to stand corrected, but please do not attack my logic by building strawmen. You could have simply stated the name of that predecessor, ideally with a link. The basis my comment for this was this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22278637 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22278637 Unfortunately the Atlantic article is now paywalled.
- kencausey 3y ago
  Archive from 20220805: https://archive.is/4l509 https://archive.is/4l509
- noneoftheabove 3y ago
  Don’t trust the PR coming out of Wolfram. His wiki entry was paid for, his puppets on the net do the rest propogating disinformation And misinformation. He has connection to writers from New York Times and others.
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