Hi,
I've updated the article based on everybody's feedback. Thanks.
The new version is here: http://wstein.org/papers/focm11/
I can still make some last minute changes in the next day.
(Don't worry about the weird formatting of the first two pages.)
William
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:18 AM, N
Thanks for the article -- I agree that it should end up somewhere
easily accessible for people who are sage-curious. Here are some
things I noticed, which of course you're free to ignore :)
* The phrase "..at least.." rubs me the wrong way in the two places
you've used it (describing the many b
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Jason Grout
wrote:
> On 8/28/11 1:00 PM, William Stein wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm writing a short paper about the motivation and history of the Sage
>> project for the FoCM 2011 conference proceedings, where I was one of
>> the plenary speakers.
>>
>> I've attac
On Aug 29, 9:02 pm, William Stein wrote:
> > Will you have rights to it, independent of the conference
> > proceedings?
>
> If they don't let me keep distribution rights, then I will refuse to
> publish it with them.
Very good! Ship me the source when you are done.
Rob
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To post to this grou
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Rob Beezer wrote:
> On Aug 28, 11:00 am, William Stein wrote:
>> I'm writing a short paper about the motivation and history of the Sage
>> project for the FoCM 2011 conference proceedings, where I was one of
>> the plenary speakers.
>
> That is a nice concise hist
On Aug 28, 11:00 am, William Stein wrote:
> I'm writing a short paper about the motivation and history of the Sage
> project for the FoCM 2011 conference proceedings, where I was one of
> the plenary speakers.
That is a nice concise history of, and rationale for, Sage. It would
be a great thing
On Aug 29, 6:00 am, Jason Grout wrote:
> On 8/28/11 1:00 PM, William Stein wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I'm writing a short paper about the motivation and history of the Sage
> > project for the FoCM 2011 conference proceedings, where I was one of
> > the plenary speakers.
>
> > I've attached the f
On Monday, August 29, 2011 9:00:59 AM UTC-4, jason wrote:
>
> 1. Mathematica has a Compile function [1], which should probably be
> mentioned when you mention Cython.
>
As far as I understand, Mathematica's Compile function is much more like
Sage's fast_callable. It generates an in-memory expres
On 8/28/11 1:00 PM, William Stein wrote:
Hello,
I'm writing a short paper about the motivation and history of the Sage
project for the FoCM 2011 conference proceedings, where I was one of
the plenary speakers.
I've attached the first draft to this email. Feedback welcome!
The paper is due bef
