Re: [Axiom-developer] PLOS Rules for documenting scientific software

2018-12-22 Thread William Sit
Amen. William William Sit Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics The City College of The City University of New York New York, NY 10031 homepage: wsit.ccny.cuny.edu From: Axiom-developer on behalf of Tim Daly Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2018 3:

[Axiom-developer] QED Manifesto and Symbolic Algebra

2018-12-22 Thread Tim Daly
9. Too little care for rigor. It is notoriously easy to find "bugs" in algorithms for symbolic computation. To make matters worse, these errors are often regarded as of no significance by their authors, who plead that the result returned is true "except on a set of measure zero", without explicitly

[Axiom-developer] The QED Manifesto

2018-12-22 Thread Tim Daly
Computerized Mathematics http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/qed/qed.html ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

[Axiom-developer] PLOS Rules for documenting scientific software

2018-12-22 Thread Tim Daly
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006561 1) Write comments as you code 2) Include examples and lots of them 3) Include a quickstart guide 4) Include a README file with basic information 5) Include a help command for command line interfaces 6) Version control y