I would be willing to chip in some effort on the mathematica.sage file, although not in the very near future. I plan to begin migrating my undergraduate courses to sage from mathematica for fall semester 2008. I hope to convince other faculty do to the same, but it won't be easy. I am mainly interested in the mathematica.sage effort as a way to make it easier for my colleagues to port their labs to sage.
-Marshall On Jul 11, 1:32 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/11/07, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I think the init file idea needs to be pushed harder. I already do this > > and the > > flexibility is absolutely critical to my happiness. I even have my init > > file > > call another file in the current directory so I can have different things > > defined depending on which project I'm working on (Of course, that idea > > doesn't > > have much merit from the notebook). > > > We could publish init files for various CAS's. I realize we can't match > > semantics, but for myself I don't think the semantics are the hard part -- > > the > > hard part is remembering the new function name. > > > We could also publish init files for various branches of mathematics -- > > applied, > > number theory, etc. > > > I realize this could lead to support questions when people do dumb things in > > their init file, but I think it is easily worth to publish this huge amount > > of > > flexibility. > > I think this is definitely worth a try, and will probably be pretty fun to do. > It may or may not be successful (e.g., if you type foo? the examples could > easily fail because of how you customized your session -- this could be > very bad). It would make sense to do something like this at least > for the following systems, in order of priority: > 1. mathematica > 2. matlab > 3. maple > 4. magma > 5. pari > 6. gap > > For some of these, it is hard to think of where to begin, since there are > thousands of commands (e.g., matlab has over 8000 commands). > One could begin by creating a "mathematica.sage" that defines common > commands like > Integrate > Sin > Cos > Derivative (?) > N > > etc., with the case conventions of mathematica. This file could look > like: > > Integrate = integrate > Sin = sin > Cos = cos > ... > N = RDF # or something more sophisticated?? I.e., take number of > digits as input... > ... > > Thoughts? Volunteers? > > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
