Re: Possible Calc support for Org-Babel?

[Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>]

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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