On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Simon King <simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote: > On Nov 23, 4:38 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:28 AM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > From the proposal >> >> > ... and which has sophisti- >> > cated interfaces to nearly all other mathematics software, including >> > Mathematica, Maple, >> > MATLAB and Magma. ... >> >> > Maxima just gets no respect. :) > > At the risk of writing the obvious: > There are two types of Sage's interfaces to "nearly all other" > software: To software that is distributed with Sage (Gap, Singular, > and, yes, Maxima), and to proprietary CAS. Aparently, the sentence > from the proposal is about the latter. So, I don't think there is > reason for the developers of Gap, Maxima or Singular to be upset. > > Gap, Maxima and Singular *are* mentioned in the proposal (I must admit > that I find it a bit odd that the Maxima library is the only one that > is qualified as "venerable", though... :)
Maxima started in the 1960s, whereas Singular, Pari, GAP are from the 1990s, right? Venerable = "accorded a great deal of respect, esp. because of age" > However, a concise list of software projects onto which Sage builds > seems missing to me (or perhaps I overlooked it). Perhaps, the phrase > "Already, Sage combines several hundred thousand lines of new code > with over 5 million lines of code from other projects." on the first > page could be extended to something like: > > "Sage provides the capabilities of a wide range of open source > mathematical and non-mathematical software, such as GAP, JMol, Maxima, > Numpy, Pari/GP, R, Scipy, Singular, Tachyon and Twisted, to name just > a few of them. In addition, Sage provides features that were not > available in open source before, based on several hundred thousand > lines of new code." > (Hope that the "not available before" bit is correct...) That's a good idea. William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
