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Use Emacs as the IDE for Wolfram Mathematica.


From: Christopher Dimech
Subject: Use Emacs as the IDE for Wolfram Mathematica.
Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 12:00:10 +0200

> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 8:54 PM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Use Emacs as the IDE for Wolfram Mathematica.
>
> Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> > Mathematics is done by computers based on heuristic formulas
> > and computational methods way different than what is taught
> > in classroom.
> >
> > Suggesting that Mathematica can bring to you very complex
> > methods is not a beneficial aspect for a researcher because
> > it doesn't tell you how they accomplished it and it could
> > well have take years of work and research that you need to
> > do all over again.
>
> It sounds like a tool and these can be used in any number of
> ways, it is even possible to abuse or loose a tool, for
> example if some "pal" borrows it and never returns it.
>
> Point is, it is up to anyone to decide and if it can be done
> from Emacs it is perhaps likely even someone has already tried
> that and lived to tell the tale.

I see it as support for proprietary software which does nothing for the GNU 
Project.
Thusly, although someone might include such functionality for Emacs, it should 
not
be taken up as part of the official emacs development chain.

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