Simon King wrote: > Hi! > > If I am not mistaken, Mathematica calls it "manipulate", while > "interact" is Sage's brand. Sorry if I got this wrong. > > Admittedly my memory for those things is not good, but I think I > remember that Sage had that feature before Mathematica. In that case, > let us hope that Sage does not end like the inventors of the > telephone, Philipp Reis (first public demonstration of a phone link in > 1861) and Antonio Meucci (first presentation of a device in 1860 > [without a phone link] and first patent application in 1871 [but > running out of money, so, his caveat expired])... >
Actually, Mathematica had Manipulate before Sage had interacts. Both were after Enthought Traits (which provides similar functionality on a more general level), GLUI (http://www.cs.unc.edu/~rademach/glui/) and other various implementations of dynamic controls that automatically update variable values. Thanks, Jason -- Jason Grout -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
