@kirma You my friend need to clean your keyboard -- mom :)

@halirutan Heh... it's keyboard at work... I never touch function keys. Office cleaners apparently don't care either!

I guess it's time to have a break when your dreams start featuring Mr. SW... :I

New Q&A site proposed: Business Simulation and Modeling

I just wanted to share with you, that I have proposed a new Q&A site on Area 51: Business Simulation and Modeling. It should address the needs of people trying to solve management issues and providing decision support using quantitative computer models. It would be great if some of you might join to show also what Mma can do in that context...

... some remarks: A lot of topics in that "Business Simulation" context is dispersed across different sites here: Computer Science, Mathematics, CV ... But people might benefit from a higher, more problem specific level. Consider tools also: In the System Dynamics community there is Vensim, PowerSim, iThink and AnyLogic -- Mathematica being probably too 'technical', 'difficult' and also 'exotic'. Also people doing System Dynamics, Discrete Event Simulation or Agent-base Modling are 'locked-in'.

While I believe that Systems Thinking is too broad and drifts into sometimes rather esoteric topics, I feel that the unifying topic should be Business/Economics/Management. After all, sometimes some of us also have to earn some money. ;-)

Is there or has anybody every tried to make a code highlighter for different programming languages inside mathematica as in a cell style/stylesheet? A code highlighter for C would be very useful.

@Sascha I wrote a general package generator for this, and did it for C, Java and R in particular, see here

@Leonid that looks better than anything I would have hoped for (I only want to pretty-print some C code and use with the connected devices framework in version 10). Does your package work in version 10?

@Sascha No idea, did not test. I plan to revisit it, but was occupied by other things. But is should be easy to test it.

I will gladly try it and report back if there are any hiccups :)

All right, that would be great. Hope it works for you. Basically, it is not a package, but a package generator - you provide a lexical spec for the language, and it generates complete package for you, to highlight cells with that language's code. The notebook contains examples for C and Java, IIRC.

Hey guys, anyone know why I can't pass a parameter to my ref function i.imgur.com/oSF5s78.png ?

I feel like that isn't a good enough question to put up a post about so I figure I would try here first.