Re: Why I am unwilling to use Mathematica if I can help it

Herman Rubin wrote:
> In article <110720052305536542%bruck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Ronald Bruck <bruck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Well, but this is only an inexperienced user naively cutting and
>>pasting. He SHOULD have sent us the "InputForm" of the expression.
>
>>Or the TeXForm, since this is a math forum. But **I** hold
>>Mathematica's TeXForm against them, since they use their own weird
>>spacing.

Mathematica is trying to typeset programs as well as maths. TeX only
typesets maths.

> I use TeX, but I dislike it. We need a multifont WYSIWYG
> notation, and should be able to get it.

Have you tried LyX? I never use TeX directly anymore...

> And Mathematica has far too many uses for [] for intelligibility.

But you don't type or even see those most of the time?

> Another beef is with the requirement for long expressions
> such as "FullSimplify" and "IndentingNewLine". I can
> program far faster than I can type the program.

It eases the Mathematica learning curve and you can make abbreviated aliases
if you want. I'd like to see tab completion in Mathematica...

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