> - It suffers from the "I can do it better", do-it-yet-again-in-python > syndrome, where it will be discovered that python is too slow > so we need to rewrite it in Cython and do obscure, undocumented, > performance enhancing software hacks.
Unfortunately computers live in the physical world, not the theoretical world. Ugly performance enhancing software hacks are often needed to make theoretical algorithms viable. > - It suffers from the "OpenMath" communication issue (e.g. if you > take an Axiom expression, export it to maple, compute with it, > and re-import it to Axiom you have violated a lot of type > assumptions in Axiom, possibly violated branch cut assumptions > (e.g. acosh), done invalid simplifications, and any number of > violent mathematical mistakes) If merely by exporting the data and re-importing it you have violated assumptions, then Axiom is broken and needs a better exporting system. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
