There is again this point cropping up in the comments: "But Sage's mission is to be a viable alternative to Mathematica"
This is being discussed tangentially in another sage-devel thread, but I think it's something to be considered carefully. There is a difference between saying "it is ok for Sage to develop in a direction which makes it a viable replacement for Matlab, Maple and Mathematica" and "Sage's mission statement is to be a viable alternative to MMMs". I think it creates false expectations and ultimately disillusion in potential users. My impression as a lurker on the mailing list is that Sage is heavily oriented towards the needs of the math research community and that not much effort is being put into other areas of scientific computing that might be of interest to physicists and engineers (which are heavy users of MMM). My impression is that the Scipy-Numpy-Sympy ecosystem is a better fit than Sage, at least for numerical purposes. All of this is of course all fine and dandy, but I think it should be stated more precisely (if that is really the case and not just my impression :). Cheers, Francesco. On 27 August 2014 14:06, William A Stein <wst...@uw.edu> wrote: > > http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/2eo9ku/sage_open_source_mathematics_software_you_dont/ > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > wst...@uw.edu > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
