Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: [GDML] [gdml] ICERM report and comments

2014-09-13 Thread Francesco Biscani
On 13 September 2014 11:00, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > 5) I do agree with much of what is written about portability and the > ***ing GNU compiler. People now write in "GNU C", which is a > constantly changing like the wind direction. > > I my

Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: [GDML] [gdml] ICERM report and comments

2014-09-13 Thread kcrisman
> > 7) The application of software engineering is I feel an important > thing. I have tried to argue this before, with very little success, > suggesting William buy books on the topic for serious developers. I > note that this paper makes the same comments. > > I think that many Sage developer

Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: [GDML] [gdml] ICERM report and comments

2014-09-13 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 12 September 2014 02:23, William A Stein wrote: > Hi Sage Devs, > > I just received this email which links to a report about "global > digital math libraries" and also a long and opinionated document by > somebody named Nelson Beebe. Since Sage is mentioned a few times in > both documents, I t

[sage-devel] Fwd: [GDML] [gdml] ICERM report and comments

2014-09-11 Thread William A Stein
Hi Sage Devs, I just received this email which links to a report about "global digital math libraries" and also a long and opinionated document by somebody named Nelson Beebe. Since Sage is mentioned a few times in both documents, I thought I would forward them, since maybe some Sage developers m