Hi,
Bill Page escribió: >> [ x ] No, I can read the above just fine. It is crystal clear. >> > > ... but of course unnecessarily verbose. In my opinion a more common > notation in Sage: > > sage: x=2*vector(range(10))+vector(10*[3]) > sage: list_plot(map(lambda a:[cos(a),sin(a)],x/max(x))) > > is superior to Mathematica. > Talking about aesthetics, long time before Sage there was a small CAS called Yacas and one of the things that liked more about it was the possibility to define your own syntax easily for subdomains[1][2]. Of course the There Is More Than One Way To Do It could leave to the syntactic hell of some languages, but some people are working on having your own aesthetic for expressing ideas while keeping compatibility like in the Collaborative Object Lambda Architecture[3][4] in which you can control syntax and semantics of a language and still keeping compatibility with a metarepresentations. Just food for thought. [1] http://yacas.sourceforge.net/codingchapter8.html#c8 [2] http://yacas.sourceforge.net/essayschapter3.html#c3 [3] http://piumarta.com/papers/EE380-2007-slides.pdf [4] http://piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf Cheers, Offray --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
