Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Project

2008-04-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
It seems that Sage is going to connect with OLPC. If all those kids do their math using Sage, I think there is no way around Sage anymore. Sage can already do many many things better than Axiom, I suppose, so we need really good reasons to continue with Axiom, I think. Maybe I should just r

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: Project

2008-04-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
William Stein wrote: I'm unconvinced that literate programming is a silver bullet that solves the problem of making code easier to understand later. I do strongly advocate documenting and writing excellent test suites for code. All code that goes into Sage has every function tested, documented,

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Project

2008-04-20 Thread root
Ted, That's a very pretty piece of work and it seems really well integrated with yacas. I'm surprised that Sage wouldn't use it for education. The dynamic graphing is perfect for the education market. Tim ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-develo

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Project

2008-04-20 Thread Ted Kosan
Alfredo Portes wrote: > It seems that Sage is going to connect with OLPC. If all those kids do their > math using Sage, I think there is no way around Sage anymore. Sage can > already > do many many things better than Axiom, I suppose, so we need really good > reasons to continue with Axiom

[Axiom-developer] Re: [sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: Project

2008-04-20 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:13 AM, TimDaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How does the fricas/axiom source code layout work? > > Is it all written in pamphlets that lisp is generated from? > > There is a bit of a philosophical split between Axiom and > Fricas about source code layout and it

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2008-04-20 Thread root
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[Axiom-developer] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: Project

2008-04-20 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi William, On 04/20/2008 05:29 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't have the guts to send this to a public mailing list. I probably > > should. If you want to, you have my permission. > > > > > > "Alfredo

[Axiom-developer] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: Project

2008-04-20 Thread TimDaly
> How does the fricas/axiom source code layout work? > Is it all written in pamphlets that lisp is generated from? There is a bit of a philosophical split between Axiom and Fricas about source code layout and it is fairly fundamental. Axiom has everything in pamphlet files and is gradually movin

[Axiom-developer] Re: Project

2008-04-20 Thread Arthur Ralfs
Hi Ralf, My own perspective in what I'm doing is authoring mathematical web documents that can be live by connecting to a CAS somewhere on a server. All tools I use must be completely free and open source, but in addition it is very important to me that somebody should be able to navigate to a

[Axiom-developer] Re: Project

2008-04-20 Thread Bill Page
Martin, I think discussing things like off the email lists does more damage to the community then it would if you were to be more public about these opinions. Are far as I am concerned, you have nothing to fear from exploring these ideas and other people might benefit greatly by your experience.