On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I didn't find NTL that easy to use. Perhaps it depends on the code >>> style of the reader and writer. I had a look at singular 2 years ago, >>> and I did not find it easy at all (and it was not available as a >>> library anyway). >>> I didn't look at ginac recently, but I did 8 years ago when I started >>> giac. At the beginning giac was based over ginac, I first wrote a >>> polynomial library extension with ginac since it had (and still does >>> not have stable) factorization code. Then I decided to abandon ginac, >>> since I didn't like to use cln and I could not access easily to the >>> underlying symbolic representation for the conversions. >>> Maybe it's >>> because I do not really master C++, but I find much easier to have >>> union and explicit type information in a structure like giac::gen. >> >> >> That's interesting, since the first thing I did with Ginac over >> the last 10 days was completely replace all use by Ginac >> of cln by use of PyObject*'s, which are more like giac::gen, >> I guess. >> >> Incidentally, I invested a significant amount of time systematically learning >> C++ when I was an undergrad computer science major, so you're >> right that this likely affects my perspective. > > This is indeed interesting. If you say that ginac is nicely written, > then I really should consider myself an education in C++ (as btw the > ginac developers told me!). :) And I will do it and educate myself.
I definitely do recommend learning C++, if for no other reason that there is a *lot* of valuable code written in that language, and understanding it helps expand your options. Also, I think C/C++ code is the "closest" code to the Python ecosystem. Just be sure you don't like C++ too much! If you look at TIOBE: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html then you'll see that together C/C++ is the according to that site the "world's most popular language". -- William Disclaimer: I don't like C++ too much. But it is worth knowing. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
