On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:01 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope you fix this and submit a patch :-) Yeah I know talk is cheap. :-) but if there is no users what is the point? Same happened to the livecd. I was thinking on creating an optional package for OpenAxiom but just a a learning thing for myself. > A good unifying graphical interface is extremely important to creating > something that is a viable alternative to > Maple/Mathematica/Magma/Matlab. In some sense it is perhaps it > is *the* most important thing. I look forward to this. > Waldek has been very helpful getting Axiom to stay an optional > Sage package, by making it easy to build with clisp. Fricas :-) > From the point of view of the future and developers, my impression > is that neither project excites a lot of modern developers because > they are written in lisp and ALDOR. This is just an observation, > and I'm not making any claims about the quality of either language > or trying to start a flame war. It's just that language choices do > influence the type of programmers one gets: > http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html Yeah I think the use of a mainstream language like python in the case of Sage was a very good one. > Bill Page did a lot of heroic work which we greatly appreciate, and we > learned a great deal from him. Thanks Bill!! Yes he does. He is a very good voice to have on any project. > By the way, regarding Sage, though I'm the lead developer decision > making is done via some form of voting. The main reasons for this is > so that we can more efficiently make more correct decisions, and also > to reduce the Sage bus factor. As it should be. Thank you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
