On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:08:05 -0500, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Bill Hart wrote: > >> Ultimately most of the users of the system are not going to be python >> programmers, I think, so I believe that this will turn out to be the >> best choice. > > Of course, the other possibility, eventually, might be to allow one to > switch modes in SAGE from the one you are moving towards, to a python > type mode, where the old functionality is the one that is used. It > really depends on how uncomfortable people are going to be with the new > way of doing things. You sort of have that at present, but perhaps it > is possible to have a session wide flag which sets all those flags you > are putting in automatically to not inject variables for those who > prefer them not to be. David Harvey's already convinced me that trom the start I want any .py code (library or user) to not do the injection. The injecting will be for the command line, notebook, and .sage files. When I think of the long-term target audience for SAGE I envision about 95% are mathematicians or students who may have never used Python, and 5% are python programmers who need some math for their programs. This is based very much on watching actual people use SAGE. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
