On 8/4/07, Alec Mihailovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Alec Mihailovs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > It actually may be true (regarding to Mathematica). Their code may be very > > poorly commented (and AFAICT it is.) > > And the motivation for doing that is very simple. If you (a developer) do it > that way, so that you are the only one who could understand the code - less > chances that you get fired.
Scary. Unfortunately, you're quite right. I think Jon Bober's code for number of partitions is a very nice example of how open source is so much better. Have a look at it some time; the comments are fascinating. And reading through the extremely interesting and extensive comments makes one start to *distrust* it a little, which is actually really good in a way. It's amazing how worried one can get about code when you actually read it! Likewise one can easily go from generally believing a proof -- because it is by somebody famous -- to not believing it after reading through the proof. -- 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
