When I say "simple" I mean really, really, REALLY simple. So simple it's intuitive for non-programmers. I can program and I could always run Python scripts or use command line interfaces myself, but I have friends who want something even easier. My friends are pretty smart, they're just not programmers. They're intimidated by this stuff.
I'm thinking I'll probably just continue my own back end (which I've started rewriting in Python) but leverage some hand-picked advanced functionalities like integration. The advantage of this is that I can make it secure and easy to use; the disadvantage is that it'll be more work. It absolutely has to be easy and secure, though. On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:43 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Jeff Pickhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Professor Stein, >>> >>> Hi, my name is Jeff Pickhardt and I'm trying to make a really simple >>> but powerful calculator. I went to this summer's SciPy Conference but >>> I don't think we met, although I remember you. >>> >>> One thing I'd really love, as a physics major, is a really simple but >>> powerful calculator. I currently made a front-end and my own back-end >>> in Perl for a web calculator (www.encalc.com), but I'd really like to >>> use SAGE to enable more powerful features like differentiation and >>> integration. (I know of the SAGE Notebook and I've used it and > > Another approach is to leave the security to google to handle, but the > price is that you have to run pure Python. > Here is how it looks like when you run sympy (written in pure python) > in a shell: > > http://live.sympy.org/ > > (You can get sources to everything on the above page.) > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
