I like it but perhaps I am prejudiced:-) IMHO, SAGE would be dead (or at least a very lonely research project) if it weren't for the fact that it is free and open source. But also, design is an important factor.
Some ideas (I hesitate to call them suggestions since it seems fine as is): 1. replace "notable community" by specific growth (as in derivative) numbers. 2. replace "interfaces to all exisiting..." by something specific like "well-designed command-line interface to Python, GAP, ..." (You can't say everything in 2 pages but I personally love the tabbed history and completion of the IPython interface and saw it wasn't mentioned.) 3. A specific example could be mentioned which smoothly integrates several systems. As Michael B suggests, a group invariant computation in a number field mixes GAP (for groups), Pari for the number field (is this correct?), and Singular (for the polynomial ring invariant theory computations). On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:57 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm giving a plenary talk at ISSAC in Linz, Austria this summer. I'm > supposed > to write a 2-page "abstract/paper" for the proceedings. I just wrote > something: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/tmp/abstract.pdf > > I've been advised by some people on this list to focus on algorithms in Sage > and purely technical things, but I've totally ignored that advice and instead > written something very social in which I as honestly as possible lay out > exactly > why Sage exists and try to describe somewhat just what Sage is. > > I have to submit this in a couple days, but comments are welcome. > > -- William > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
