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Mathematica notebooks are today's most sophisticated manifestation of the
document-centered approach to user interfaces and are a departure from the
normal dialog-box-based approach. With a document-centered interface (DCI)
approach, control elements, their associated specifications, and structural
information all reside together inside the document itself alongside the
user data--text, typeset math, graphics, interface elements, programs, and
so forth.
As well as providing an optimized, highly interactive environment for
performing and presenting technical work, the notebook structure has proved
ideal as a superset container for technical information, a hub for an
individual's or group's technical knowledge.
Most application software separates users from developers. With the DCI
approach this is no longer necessary: users working on a problem are
automatically creating a notebook document that is itself an application to
utilize in solving similar problems in the future. |
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