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: 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: 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.