Ronan Paixão wrote: >> >> >> On Nov 24, 6:49 am, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Jeff Pickhardt wrote: >>>> 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. > I was thinking about doing something like that for some time too, though > I currently don't have time nor the skill to accomplish it. > My idea is to copy the interface of an HP50g graphing calculator, which > is pretty straightforward, with some modifications to make it even > simpler to use (since we aren't limited to hardware buttons nor have > exactly the same functions). Notice that this still wouldn't work on the > security side, since there's always some way to hack around client-side > limitations.
IIRC, Ted Kosan once had a prototype of something like this. See http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/6a6eb3d8b02f2750/a87bbc0c66b65321 I don't know if it still works. He was using Java. -Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
