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package construction

From	Jack L Goldberg 1 <jackgold@umich.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	package construction
Date	2011-04-05 10:45 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID	<inerrp$jae$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)

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Hi Folks;

Something puzzles me. (Actually, a lot puzzles me but thats a story  
for my psychologist).  Considering the incredible sophistication of  
Mathematica, why is it so mysteriously hard for a beginner to write a package  
and store it properly so that it can by accessed as easily as built-n  
packages?

Has anyone put there mind to develop a template to make this stuff  
automatic. As a model, consider digital cameras, which have automatic  
mode for camera dummies like me, and a manual mode for the serious  
enthusiasts.  I envisage a template in which the pertinent questions  
are asked of the developer: Name of package, name of commands for  
users and the syntax of these commands, the private code and etc. Mathematica  
then takes this info, does all the routine stuff needed to have a  
package ready to go.

I suppose that this has not been done because it is far harder to do  
than I imagine it to be. But when I consider the sophistication of  
Resolve, I can't believe this is harder.

Jack

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package construction Jack L Goldberg 1 <jackgold@umich.edu> - 2011-04-05 10:45 +0000
  Re: package construction "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 09:12 +0000
    Re: package construction Alexey <lehin.p@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 12:06 +0000
  Re: package construction "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2011-04-06 09:14 +0000

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