My version control journey started with CVS, after that I looked at SVN, but
never really used it. The shortcomings of centralized repositories were too
obvious and with my increasing interest in Haskell I jumped on the distributed
version control train with
Darcs. I really, really
liked it, but it had some nasty things too. After a while I was looking for
something different and stumbled over
Mercurial, again I was
really happy with it but somehow my journey wasn’t over yet.
I sometimes forget to push or pull changes to or from a remote repository. To remedy the problem I wrote myself a little script to show me the status on the prompt.
It’s been a while since I wrote my Vim Introduction and Tutorial (exactly one year). A lot happened between now and then, I chose to get a better feeling about Emacs for example.
The reasons aren’t easily explained; The most prominent reason is the awesome AucTex-mode since I’m working heavily with LaTeX lately.
Anyways, learning Vim and Emacs is better than learning only one of them :-).
In this post I’ll go through some of the most prominent math programs available with source code.
This is by no means “original” work, I just collected the headlines and links to various mathematical software projects out there. This started with an offer of my University (Mathematica for 13 Euro), but I don’t want to invest time in a tool I won’t have (free, or almost free) access to for the rest of my life.
