On Jul 7, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Ryan Hinton wrote:
> > On the other hand, I've never found a bug in Matlab. And with the > tools > I have found bugs (still _much_ less often than with Sage), it takes > much less of my time: I don't have to dig through source code that > someone else wrote, find, fix the bug to the original author's > satisfaction (or whoever reviews the ticket) -- often involving > several > iterations. > I've found bugs in both Matlab and Maple. The response from the Matlab people was that they were changing their back end of that function and they believed it would fix the problem (it didn't). Maple, I've had different responses from. In some cases, I was told it was a "feature" not a bug and some of their customers wanted it that way. Which I don't believe. The problem is, that code is so old so they don't want to fix it. Other times, I've been told that it can't be fixed because of backwards compatibility. This case was the different Vector definitions for Linear Algebra vs. Vector Calculus. You can't really use the two at the same time unless you are really careful. At least with Sage, I can attempt to fix something myself and I can see a list of known bugs. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
