From: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Matthew Oesting <oestingm@me.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible Calc support for Org-Babel?
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:42:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878w1ani4w.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
Forgot to CC the list et al.
"Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
> Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
[...]
>> I now wonder if it would be worthwhile discussing the choices you have
>> made regarding stack versus algebraic evaluation. I would rather have
>> the quote mean an algebraic expression, just from the simple reason that
>> these will be longer than stack operations and so the overhead of a
>> quote is smaller as a percentage of keystrokes...
>>
>
> Hmm, one point against prefixing the algebraic expressions is that they
> would be more likely to be used by themselves in an inline code block.
Yes, I guess so. My initial thoughts were that we have plenty of
algebraic languages available already through babel (octave, R, python,
...) so why not support a stack based one more directly. However, the
real benefit of calc is that it is *emacs* and not external! Algebraic
is more natural to most people so making it easy for them to express
themselves makes sense.
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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-03 22:42 Eric S Fraga [this message]
2010-11-04 13:24 ` Possible Calc support for Org-Babel? Eric Schulte
2010-11-04 14:13 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-04 14:42 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-11-04 15:33 ` Eric Schulte
2010-11-04 16:02 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-11-04 16:23 ` Eric Schulte
2011-01-27 0:39 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2011-02-23 4:35 ` Eric Schulte
2011-02-24 10:13 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-27 21:32 ` Eric Schulte
2011-02-28 18:16 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-01 17:34 ` Eric Schulte
2011-03-01 20:10 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-07 9:16 ` Eric S Fraga
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-01 20:48 orgmode
2010-10-22 17:17 Matthew Oesting
2010-10-26 18:37 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29 6:42 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29 7:13 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-29 11:14 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-29 14:43 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29 16:22 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29 19:53 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-29 20:26 ` Eric Schulte
[not found] ` <87hbg4pooh.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
[not found] ` <871v7879x5.fsf@gmail.com>
2010-10-30 20:54 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-03 20:10 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29 11:27 ` Sébastien Vauban
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