On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:53 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:47 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Aug 26, 12:34 am, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>> > Well, Sage developers like Python, Cython and C while Maxima >>> > developers like lisp (at least for the low level stuff) - so we are >>> > having self selecting groups here. It is the best tool for the job, >>> > but also the devil you know, so I don't see big changes here in the >>> > future. >>> >>> Let me say that I do see big changes here in the future. With Cython, >>> it is actually easier to extend Python in C, than to extend Matlab in >>> C, especially with the new numpy support in Cython soon. >>> >>> Yes, I think people will actually stop being scared by extending >>> Python in C and porting more C libraries to Python >> >> Are you kidding? Python probably has the most C library extensions out >> there for any scripting language I am aware of. Cython makes it >> better, but many interface wrappers like Swig have done a stellar >> job :) > > I'm pretty sure Ondrej just expressed himself in a very unclear way. > I think he is talking more about people writing new fast code for > Python (via Cython) that happens to use C libraries. It seems likely > that he means this, since Ondrej started with GiNaC three years ago, > wrapped it via swig, was very very unhappy with the result, so much > so he has spent a massive amount of effort on sympy. Now, with > Cython, etc., it is finally possible to use GiNaC from Sage in a > perhaps satisfactory way.
Thanks for clarification William, yes, I mean exactly this. Sorry if I was unclear. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
