Hello, I was invited to the on-going Sage developer days workshop. http://sagemath.org http://wiki.sagemath.org/dev1 I gave a little presentation about Maxima. http://maxima.sourceforge.net/misc/maxima-opinions.pdf
Sage is a really exciting project in many ways. I think merging different computational systems is a very useful goal. In Maxima there is a similar trend although less extensive since at present it is required that stuff be translated to Lisp. The new computational stuff for exact linear algebra, modular forms, and other topics is very interesting and a great contribution. Maybe in some form some of that would someday be ported to Maxima. I'm somewhat less excited by the subproject to write new symbolic manipulation code for Sage. Sorry to say it, but it seems like a reinvention of the wheel. Maybe that's unavoidable; and maybe you'll do a better job of it than Maxima! Sage is a great project and it was terrific to meet William Stein and everyone else. Many thanks to William for the invitation. I look forward to further collaboration. best Robert Dodier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
