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Comment by ori_b | Hacker News Reader

This looks interesting, but I can't see myself using it on an ipad or phone. This is something I'd want to use on a desktop, with a keyboard, while multitasking with other programs.

Edit: I'll keep it in the back of my head, and I might try it later.

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Hi I'm the author. Yep Mac is done and just being submitted for review. I just couldn't resist announcing the iOS version.

+1 to this. Would really like to try this out on the desktop.

Looks quite powerful already. With a few more standard probability/ and statistics-related functions I could see this becoming an excellent tool for finance and consulting work.

You should add an "email me when the Mac version is ready" signup form. Because I will forget about this if you don't remind me, but I'm willing to buy as long as the price isn't significantly higher.

If you want to manually email me when it's done my address is in on my profile page.

This looks really cool!

Will the desktop version have the ability to use functions from third party libraries?

We have a bunch of complicated maths in a java library. At the moment I've got a jruby wrapper around it and using the jruby repl, but it would be awesome if I could use this with it.

Oh interesting. No support for that now, but it should be possible to add. Perhaps shelling out and just reading stdout? Binary interfaces would be harder.

Well luckily, "(and soon OS X app)."

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