[sage-devel] Re: Calculus in SAGE, motivations

2007-11-18 Thread Ondrej Certik
> > > 1) Expose as much Maxima functionality as possible (one example is > > > substitution of other things besides symbols). > > We've definitely laid the foundations for that step very very well. Yes, nice work. > > > 2) It's important to allow users to create their own functions and the > > >

[sage-devel] Re: Calculus in SAGE, motivations

2007-11-17 Thread William Stein
On Nov 15, 2007 9:15 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Expose as much Maxima functionality as possible (one example is > > substitution of other things besides symbols). We've definitely laid the foundations for that step very very well. > > 2) It's important to allow users to creat

[sage-devel] Re: Calculus in SAGE, motivations

2007-11-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Nov 16, 2007 9:50 AM, Fabio Tonti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So basically, on the long run, you would like to use SymPy together with > everything rewritten in Cython? Did I get it correctly? Not necessarily. In the long run I want to have a very simple but fast calculus engine, which people

[sage-devel] Re: Calculus in SAGE, motivations

2007-11-16 Thread Fabio Tonti
So basically, on the long run, you would like to use SymPy together with everything rewritten in Cython? Did I get it* correctly?* On Nov 15, 2007 5:39 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to discuss how to improve calculus in SAGE. > > I know, that currently, mos

[sage-devel] Re: Calculus in SAGE, motivations

2007-11-15 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 15, 5:39 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to discuss how to improve calculus in SAGE. > > I know, that currently, most of the developers need other things more > urgently, but I think calculus will be the most frequently used part > in SAGE. For exampl