[sage-devel] Re: [sage-cloud-internal] William Stein says "Sage has overall failed"

2014-08-21 Thread Anne Schilling
Hi William, >From my point of view Sage definitely has *not* failed! I would not be able to do the computations I need for my research on any other platform at this point (of course this could be possibly done, but with an enormous effort). More and more people are interested in switching to Sag

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-cloud-internal] William Stein says "Sage has overall failed"

2014-08-21 Thread Paul Graham
2014-2015 will be a big year for Sage i think, with SMC leading the charge, now that SMC in particular has matured alot. From personal everyday experience i know that the idea of being able to make a free account and have access to a more mathematically substantial/capable version of Wolfram Al

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-cloud-internal] William Stein says "Sage has overall failed"

2014-08-21 Thread kcrisman
The title they gave it -- 'William Stein says "Sage has overall > failed"' -- seems a bit sensational. I think that if people read > the blog post they will see that I don't mean that the enormous effort > that people like Volker, Jereon, etc., are doing, isn't a fantastic > job. I'm me

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-cloud-internal] William Stein says "Sage has overall failed"

2014-08-21 Thread William A Stein
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Harald Schilly wrote: > Surprisingly, sometimes Reddit contains actual discussions: > > http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/2e3qla/william_stein_says_sage_has_overall_failed/ I just read through it. It might be one reason that there were over 250 new SageMathC