On Monday, November 3, 2014 5:01:03 PM UTC-8, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: ... snip .... While I usually find Kirby's posts to be so self-cancelling under close examination that no response is required, I think he has a point here.
In fact there used to be a newsgroup for Mathematica, moderated by Steve Christensen. The major moderation (other than removing spam) was to remove all comparisons, e.g. Mathematica gets XXX wrong (or slow) is OK. Mathematica gets XXX wrong but Maple gets it right (or faster) is not OK. This discussion has either gone somewhere else, or has transmuted into stackexchange or some such forum. This does not seem to provide a neat way of just listing bugs in some useful format. In any case, I think it's not the "mathematical community" that should do this, but the "users of software XYZ". I suppose one could argue for another "grand survey" of capabilities of CAS. This is not something I would necessarily trust the AMS to review. The fact that the database of bugs in open source software are public, but > Mathematica's bug list are not, has already been made. I know one of the > reasons WRI gave for not making bug reports public is because often they > are user errors. > > Perhaps the mathematical community needs to have an open-access database > of bug reports for commercial software. A discussion of the usefulness, > legality, practicality, commercial benefits etc. of such a database could > be interesting. > > I wonder if Wolfram Research will write anything? > > <joke> Would the modest Stephen Wolfram make a humble apology? </joke> > > Dave. > -- 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.
