Mathematica's text + graphics GUI
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- Subject: [mg113439] Mathematica's text + graphics GUI
- From: kj <no.email at please.post>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:29:14 -0400 (EDT)
One of the things I find most amazing about the Mathematica GUI is
that it combines, within the same window, both command-line
interaction with top-quality graphics. Of the software I'm familiar
with, Mathematica is the only one that does this.
I wonder why so few apps supports this type of GUI.
One possibility is that in fact most users prefer to have separate
windows for the text-based interaction and the graphics. (Maybe
I'm just biased, but I find this possibility really implausible.)
One other possibility is that combining both text interaction and
graphics in the same window is technically *really hard*. This
seems to me a more likely explanation, even though I really wouldn't
know exactly why this particular combination in a GUI would be such
a technical feat.
I can guess and speculate like anyone else, of course, but I really
Does any of you *know* why so few apps in this general area offer
GUIs that combine text interaction with graphics in the same window?
Am I right in guessing that it is an inordinately difficult thing
to do? If so, could someone spell out for me what are the major
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