On Nov 19, 2007 10:52 AM, Stephen Forrest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So you have to pay extra for the comments! Wow. That's truly bizarre. > > Hmm, I am a former Maplesoft employee, and I have never, ever heard of > the source code being available for reading for an extra price. I am > not inclined to believe this remark.
I definitely trust you over those bizarre comments. By the way, as a former Maple employee, do you have any ideas about how to better improve the quality control process for Sage. Quality control is one place where commercial software is often much more refined than open source software, and I'd love to hear more ideas for Sage about it. > The fact that comments aren't available in the first place is not > especially surprising: Maple is an interpreted language language like > any other, and comments are the first thing to be stripped out whole > parsing. Java bytecode doesn't have comments either :). > > Furthermore, with regard to the comment by Jason Grout that the use of > the introspection tools was "encouraged by the Maple people in the > above posts.", you should understand that the Maple Primes posts to > which those links refer were made by various Maple enthusiasts > unaffiliated with Maplesoft (albeit on a site run by Maplesoft). You > shouldn't read anything about Maplesoft's position from them. Very good point. Thanks for your comments. 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
