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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [org-babel] Does org-babel needs some simplification?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:36:17 +0200
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On Jun 29, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Torsten Wagner wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> as a (quite, but happy) org-bable user of the first hour I followed up
> the development process actively.
> Nevertheless, some weeks or months pass where I had no need for
> org-babel (yes, really strange I know).
>
> Whenever I come back to org-babel, it takes me a huge amount of time  
> to
> find myself back again in the syntax. Often I spend a day or two  
> heavily
> reading the website and manual again to figure out how to make it  
> working.
>
> There are so many options. tangle files, results, scripting mode,
> sessions, noweb, lot, etc.
>
> Just yesterday, I fighted again to make a simple python script running
> as desired to generate an automatic report. I did this dozen of times
> and even by using some old report as template I still struggle with  
> it.
> Comparing old reports I noticed that I did it in many different ways.
> Tangeling all snipplets, using noweb syntax, with and without session
> support, etc.

This is, I think, the problem.  There are several ways to do things,
and the documentation maybe does not give a good guide yet which method
to use.  Maybe it need same addition in the beginning intruducing the
different ways to work with babel, and some guide lines when which  
method
is useful.

Just my 5c.

- Carsten