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+Through Org-Babel Org-Mode can communicate with programming languages.
+Code contained in source-code blocks can be evaluated passing and
+receiving data to and from org-mode files, tables, other source-code
+blocks, and interactive comint buffers.
+
 * Introduction
 
 Org-Babel enables *communication* between programming languages and