2014-2015 will be a big year for Sage i think, with SMC leading the charge, now that SMC in particular has matured alot. From personal everyday experience i know that the idea of being able to make a free account and have access to a more mathematically substantial/capable version of Wolfram Alpha ,where you can log in and save things, would be popular once school starts. Its annoying for students (including myself) trying to do something on wolfram alpha, but you cant because your only allowed to use the non-paid gimped version, unless you subscribe to become a pro member ($$$).
A lot more that could be said, but just some quick thoughts. On Thursday, August 21, 2014 6:32:03 AM UTC-7, kcrisman wrote: > > > The title they gave it -- 'William Stein says "Sage has overall > >> failed"' -- seems a bit sensational. I think that if people read >> the blog post they will see that I don't mean that the enormous effort >> that people like Volker, Jereon, etc., are doing, isn't a fantastic >> job. I'm measuring progress specifically in terms of the original >> mission statement. >> >> > To be fair, you did kind of invite that interpretation with a somewhat > dramatic line like that. Sage clearly IS a viable alternative, and > basically is a replacement at the undergraduate level. It is not a > replacement for everything - perhaps we need a jump like the combinat and > matroid crowds did in arithmetic geometry? But neither are they > replacements for Sage at this point, right, in many areas? Again, Sage is > a viable alternative even for Matlab. It's not as good for this as Octave, > apparently, and no third-party support etc. - but some people do use it, or > they wouldn't be asking for help. > > So I think that it would have been better to say that the statement that > has failed is a viable *replacement* for all four M's. Well, that would be > a hard goal indeed! For precisely the reasons you give. I don't think > that makes Sage a failure, it just makes it different. Presumably Maple > and Mathematica are not replacements for each other either. > > - kcrisman > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
