From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mdoyley@ur.rochester.edu (Doyley, Marvin) Subject: Re: An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:43:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zjgiwdsd.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu> <577F5732-98D5-4237-9780-C5E629DC2F30@ur.rochester.edu> <877g3ia9sf.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34721) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X6618-0001DP-Mp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:43:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X6613-0001xW-Ks for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:43:42 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X6613-0001wn-EI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:43:37 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X6612-0007Ys-3Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:43:36 +0200 Received: from cpe-66-66-94-63.rochester.res.rr.com ([66.66.94.63]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:43:36 +0200 Received: from mdoyley by cpe-66-66-94-63.rochester.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:43:36 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org jorge.a.alfaro@gmail.com (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: Thanks everybody for highlighting the benefits of python. I am exploring python with a few undergraduates. I am impressed how well python plays with Fortran, f2py is awesome. The syntax is very similar to MATLAB so migration should be easy, if I decided to move in that direction. Best Wishes, M > Grant Rettke writes: > >> Octave is an option, too: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ > > Since people are championing python, and R and Octave have been > mentioned, let me throw this one into the discussion: > http://www.sagemath.org/ > > "Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under > the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, > SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more" > > "Many more" includes Octave as well. If you know python, then you can > use only python in Sage, no need for learning anything new. > > Actually you do not need to install anything to use it: > https://cloud.sagemath.com/ > > At Sage Math Cloud (SMC) besides Sage, you can access a terminal there > and it has emacs already installed. Also you can ssh to their servers, > and tramp with emacs locally works well connecting to it. That is what I > use for research. > > Come to think about it, there is no ob-sage.el yet. I write my papers > directly to LaTeX (and my collaborators write at SMC since they are not > emacs users and it provides direct compilation and shows already the > results) so I never thought about exporting to sage. Does someone have > any plans for this? > > Jorge. > > > --