On Dec 4, 2009, at 9:31 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:

> 2009/12/5 Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>:
>> On Dec 4, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>
>>> just a side remark - IMHO notebooks are not designed for any kind of
>>> large-scope project.
>>
>> There's no reason they couldn't be.
> I meant a project that takes a lot of computing power (CPU/memory/ 
> disk space).
> I cannot but agree that for designing, e.g. exercises, notebooks are
> very useful, esp. combined with functionality
> of sagenb.notebook.

Oh, that's what you mean. Still, I don't see any reason the notebook  
would be worse. I've let things run overnight in the notebook, and  
@parallel works there too.

>>> For the latter, you are much better off with good old scripts.
>>> Notebooks certainly have their own pluses, such as more  
>>> interactivity
>>> and ease of collaboration---but not
>>> sharing, as was demonstrated here recently.
>>> Otherwise I don't really see a point of them.
>>
>> Ease of use, especially for people on Windows. I think they have
>> advantages for sharing as well, as I can share a notebook with  
>> someone
>> by posting it on a public (or personal) server, and they can go and
>> get an account and use it without having to even install sage. This
>> could be particularly nice for the classroom setting.
> I referred to an apparent missing feature of exporting notebook cells
> into a Sage script.
> This seems to be locking a user into using worksheets long after it's
> time to move over to
> full-blown development with scripts.

True, that would be a nice feature. Clicking on the "text" link is a  
good start.

- Robert

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