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> notebooks are universally poor development environments even for the very tasks they are advertised

unnecessarily dismissive, grandstanding.. Bravado of the rejection, not supported at all

Rich-content Notebooks tell a story; well-worn Notebooks are a familiar context for experiment and viz.



Notebooks are a maintainability maze waiting to happen.

They're incredibly non-portable; they don't play nice with version control; I know how they're supposed to be used, but I'm yet to see them actually used in a way that isn't a breeding ground for the worst software engineering I've seen.


Yet the same could be said of Excel, which is running the whole financial industry.


It can be both a bad environment and very successful.

Personally I would be happy with just proper version control support.




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