I totally agree with you, the power of SAGE should be primarily to allow a transparent usage of different tools without hassles. Provided that, anyone could be free to use different features from any package.
But in my opinion SAGE's first aim should be to provide good capabilities, possibly taking the best from each backend (and in my opinion using different packages even for the same area, such as Pynac, Sympy, Maxima, etc for the symbolic calculus) Regards Maurizio > The Sage symbolics is in a transitional state right now, but ideally > a "normal user" shouldn't need to know about and invoke the > individual packages separately--the sage calculus interface would > either handle stuff natively or dispatch to one or more other systems > transparently. (Of course, for the even "slightly curious user" it > should be easy to see what is being called, and use the packages > directly if desired.) > > - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
