Hi David, On Wed, May 1, 2019, at 11:47 AM, David Bailey wrote: > Hello, > > I used to work as an independent Mathematica consultant, and as such > have a detailed familiarity with their Notebook mechanism. In my > opinion Mathematica notebooks made Mathematica stand out - being able > to work with algebra and calculus roughly as it would appear in a > textbook made the system far easier to use than other computer algebra > systems. Mathematica notebooks also provide a way to store work in a > form that is easy to run again and modify, as required. > > Of course, Mathematica is extremely expensive, and every new version is > bloated out with ever more functionality that hardly anyone needs. > Recent versions of Mathematica are also licensed to individual > computers, and it is necessary to contact Wolfram Research to move to > another machine. I was therefore delighted to discover SymPy - > completely free, and able to tackle most of the algebra and calculus > problems that engineers and scientists require. I would imagine that > almost everyone who buys Mathematica, uses it to solve problems that > SymPy and its related packages can tackle for free! > > Unfortunately I have found the Juypiter frontend extremely hard to work > with. I am posting here, because I am proposing to provide an > alternative to Juypiter notebooks that does not use a browser based > interface, and works directly with the Win32 API in 64-bit mode. Since > I am proposing to replace Juypiter specifically for SymPy, I thought it > was probably best to post here, rather than in a Juypiter-related forum. > > I am mostly retired now, so if I do this, it will be as a free > contribution to the SymPy project. I already have a working basic > prototype. > > Although this proposal relates to the Windows platform, I can see no > reason why it would not port to any 64-bit platform that can run Wine. > > My prototype works directly with Python using the C-Python interface, > so there are no problems with communicating processes, and obviously it > is not necessary to have a CMD box running in the background to make it > work! > > In my experience, the fact that Mathematica's notebooks do run as a > frontend/kernel combination, does lead to visible complications for > users of the software. Glitches of various sorts are inevitable. > > If anyone wants to know why I consider Juypiter unsatisfactory, I am > happy to go into more detail. > > Basically I want to know what you all think about this software, which > I propose to call SymPyNotebook.
As other said, I would also be interested in hearing what you don't like about the Jupyter notebooks. Thanks for working on a new notebook interface that you think is better. Do you have some screenshots? Ondrej -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/2a577156-b2e8-4ce9-bd3f-8d868fccd9e8%40www.fastmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
