An introduction to Pluto

Posted Nov 4, 2020 9:24 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
Parent article: An introduction to Pluto

The English word "notebook" is seriously overloaded... Every time I read about this stuff on LWN, my first thought is that this is some kind of physical device, a laptop. The "computational" prefix doesn't really help. Maybe it's not that confusing for native speakers.

An introduction to Pluto

Posted Nov 4, 2020 11:33 UTC (Wed) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

"Notebook" as the name for a ... book of notes ... long predates and is much more common than its use as "small laptop".

An introduction to Pluto

Posted Nov 5, 2020 0:56 UTC (Thu) by Paf (subscriber, #91811) [Link] (1 responses)

I think this indicates you’ve never been a working scientist (no offense is intended). This is like a *lab* notebook, and as someone who used to be a working scientist, a sort of programmable lab notebook, with calculations included, is an *incredibly* enticing concept.

An introduction to Pluto

Posted Nov 5, 2020 17:55 UTC (Thu) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

Well, I've never been a lab scientist and nevertheless I don't share the confusion. But I also find the concept enticing and I've been previously exposed to Stephen Wolfram's writing, so...

Here's one data point :)