[zitterbewegung]

Mathematica is a great prototyping language for people who know mathematics. It is the equivalent of Microsoft Excel. The problem is when you want to do something beyond that you will probably rewrite it in something else. And that something else is increasingly being Python.

I do like the term "computational essay". It describes a way of presenting information. While "notebook" feels more to me a set of calculations that may or may not be commented and don't have a set structure.

It would be neat if we had a standard notebook notation or system that would subsume all of these competing standards. Unfortunately it would probably end up like this https://xkcd.com/927/

[Volt]

>The problem is when you want to do something beyond that you will probably rewrite it in something else. And that something else is increasingly being Python.

You aren't going to use your Python code in your Jupyter notebook in production, are you? Jupyter is for exploration and exposition. You're going to have to rewrite it anyway.

[zitterbewegung]

I didn't say that you would translate a Mathematica workbook into an iPython notebook.