On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 06:18:22AM -0700, William Stein wrote:
> This sort of careful strategic iterative development, which easily
> parallelizes to a large number of people and gets big projects (GAP,
> Singular, PARI) to work together, rather than compete, is not
> amateuristic -- it's very sensible.  Of course, often I feel I'm the
> only person in the world who believes this; maybe that's why there
> wasn't a Sage before Sage.

I can testify of at least another person believing in this :-)
Probably many more.

When we had our "Open source Computer Algebra Meeting" back in 2002,
the above ideas where very much in the air. I believe that what was
missing is someone with the determination, qualification, and stamina
to get it running -- with a fairly insane guts level to think «yes we
can».

Cheers,
                                Nicolas
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Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>
http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/

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