On Apr 30, 2008, at 7:06 PM, root wrote:
> I WANT Sage to live. I want it to succeed. I want it to be the > lingua-franca of the business so that we can all post our results > "in Sage" at conferences. I want to be able to "drag and drop" > your publication onto my system and have your code "just work", > your documentation "just connect". I want to be able to not only > use what you write, but to understand it so I can use it effectively. > I want MMA and Maple users to "write for Sage" instead. Awesome. > My problem is that I don't see the fundamental difference between > Sage and any other system that I've touched in the past. Obviously you must see something, or you wouldn't be writing to this list :-) > And I don't > want this whole generation of mathematicians to "do it all over again" > without some fundamental gain. I may be wrong that the literate > documentation is the key. And I admit I'm a knuth-boy fanatic about > it. > My question is, what can you suggest that will make it live when > others > have not? A vibrant developer community. Lots of naive young people like me, who don't listen to doomsayers like you :-) david --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
