Hi, I got this email from Peter Doyle and with his permission I am forwarding it here.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Doyle <> Date: Jan 4, 2008 12:28 AM Subject: sage.calculus To: Ondrej Certik <> Hi Ondrej, I like the idea of moving sage.calculus over to SymPy, hopefully as seamlessly as possible. But right now I am wondering if it wouldn't be possible to vastly speed up the interface between Sage and maxima, so that sage.calculus could run at something like the speed of Maxima. I don't see why the pseudo-tty interface should be so slow. Probably the time is spent translating between Python form and maxima? Maybe it would be possible to greatly speed this up? What do you think? The other thing I think needs attention is the notebook interface. Specifically, making a system where it would be easy to administer accounts on a Sage server. That would make it very easy to use Sage in a class. I would also like to see improvements to the notebook interface, with hierarchies of cells that could be expanded or hidden. These are the directions that, for my purposes of teaching and research, would make Sage a better substitute for Maple and Mathematica. Maybe I could get some students here at Dartmouth to work on this. But, I'm not sure what skills they would need. Hopefully, these would be projects that good enough students could quickly get going on, even if they started knowing nothing about Python. Again, what do you think? Cheers, Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
