On Jan 22, 4:35 pm, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
> I pity those who find themselves trying to do serious scientific > programming with excel :). Though there are certainly a lot of > rational arguments against it, there may be some out there that are > as enthusiastic about Excel as we are about Python or you are about > lisp. > > - Robert For scientific computing, of course we can laugh at Excel. But there are many analysis tasks it is good at, and for which it is _extremely_ popular. One could win a lot of people over with a spreadsheet that was well-integrated with other tools in some language. A python/ cython/javascript spreadsheet for the Sage notebook would be great - unfortunately I'm not going to write one. I think it would be hard to do it right. -M. Hampton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
