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Eric Schulte 16 years ago
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@@ -295,14 +295,14 @@ An article about computational science in a scientific publication is
 not the scholarship itself, it is merely advertising of the
 not the scholarship itself, it is merely advertising of the
 scholarship. The actual scholarship is the complete software
 scholarship. The actual scholarship is the complete software
 development environment and the complete set of instructions which
 development environment and the complete set of instructions which
-generated the figures.
+generated the figures. -- D. Donoho
 #+end_quote
 #+end_quote
--- D. Donoho
 
 
-[[http://reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/Main_Page][Reproducible Research]] (RR) is the practice of distributing the data
-and functions referenced in a paper into the paper itself, so that
-each copy of the paper is not only a document describing the research,
-but is also an executable reproducing the research.
+[[http://reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/Main_Page][Reproducible Research]] (RR) is the practice of distributing along with
+an article of research all data, code, and tools required to reproduce
+the results discussed in the paper.  As such the paper becomes not
+only a document describing the research but a complete laboratory
+reproducing the research.
 
 
 Org-mode already has exceptional support for [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting.html#Exporting][exporting to html and
 Org-mode already has exceptional support for [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting.html#Exporting][exporting to html and
 LaTeX]].  Org-babel makes Org-mode a tool for RR by *activating* the
 LaTeX]].  Org-babel makes Org-mode a tool for RR by *activating* the
@@ -313,10 +313,10 @@ recreate your results, and perform their own analysis.
 
 
 Existing RR tools like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweave][Sweave]] provide for the embedding of [[http://www.r-project.org/][R]] code into
 Existing RR tools like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweave][Sweave]] provide for the embedding of [[http://www.r-project.org/][R]] code into
 LaTeX documents.  While this is very useful, such documents often
 LaTeX documents.  While this is very useful, such documents often
-still require a large degree of "glue" in the form of external shell
-scripts, python code, and Makefiles.  To my knowledge Org-babl is the
-only RR tool which allows multiple languages and data to coexist and
-cooperate inside of a single document.
+still require a large degree of "glue code" in the form of external
+shell scripts, python scripts, and Makefiles.  To my knowledge
+Org-babl is the only RR tool which allows multiple languages and data
+to coexist and cooperate inside of a single document.
 
 
 * Literate programming
 * Literate programming
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