Re: [sage-devel] History of notebooks.

2015-10-04 Thread Thierry Dumont
William, Thank you for this detailed answer! For my talk to the group of engineers I mentioned, it is more than perfect. But I am also involved a bit in the history of computing: I think we must keep track of the different developments and writing history without such documents is very

[sage-devel] History of notebooks.

2015-10-03 Thread Thierry Dumont
Hello, I am preparing a talk I will give to a group of engineers, about "Notebooks". I mean web technology based notebooks (not java, qt or something else, but notebooks which use your web browser); so I will speak about Sage Notebook, Ipython and Jupyter notebooks. My question is: -> Was

Re: [sage-devel] History of notebooks.

2015-10-03 Thread kcrisman
> > In 2012 maybe (?) some student from I think Brown University started > using sagenb, but described the UI as "making him want to gouge his > eyes out" (exact quote). I think we mustered up $5K of NSF money to > fund his work on improving the frontend. He seemed to not understand > the

Re: [sage-devel] History of notebooks.

2015-10-03 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Thierry Dumont wrote: > Hello, > > I am preparing a talk I will give to a group of engineers, about > "Notebooks". I mean web technology based notebooks (not java, qt or > something else, but notebooks which use your web browser); so I