> So, up to now, my wishlist is: > - better Laplace, Fourier, Zeta, any other transform management > (especially in symbolic) > - unit of measurement integration > - extensible comparison between different implementations of all those > features in the different packages (better to do the limit/integral/ > anything else with maxima, or with sympy, or with sympycore, or with > pynac???) > - NEW: labels in the notebook :) colors would be VERY nice as well!
Just to add fuel to the fire, I was told point-blank by one of my colleagues that unless Sage (or Octave or any other OSS) had drivers to connect to measurement hardware in his labs, he didn't see the point of trying to use Sage, because vendors supply/sell drivers hooking Matlab to the type of equipment he uses, and he wasn't about to write a driver. I don't really know whether this is true or not (that is, that it's too annoying to get data into Sage directly from things) and I don't even know exactly what sort of measurement device he was talking about, but this seems very plausible, as well as something the current developer network is not going to be able to solve any time soon. Food for thought, at least, esp. since a large piece of the current college calculus market is pre-engineers (see David Bressoud's recent articles in the Notices and FOCUS, e.g.) and those are the future users of Sage or any other similar program. - kcrisman --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
