Re: [sage-devel] Some feature requests on SAGE - Adding Engineering to the target audience

2010-08-14 Thread William Stein
On Saturday, August 14, 2010, cousteau wrote: > On 12 ago, 11:38, Jason Grout wrote: >> >> Well, there is a general trend towards using functions instead of >> attributes in Sage.  I think the main reason is for documentation (I >> wish python had attribute docstrings that we could query!). >> >

Re: [sage-devel] Some feature requests on SAGE - Adding Engineering to the target audience

2010-08-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/ 2/10 09:47 PM, William Stein wrote: On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:38 PM, cousteau wrote: I'm studying engineering, and I'm used to some programs such as Matlab, Maple, etc. When I knew about SAGE I found it very powerful, simple and well structured, but I quickly found out that it wouldn't be

Re: [sage-devel] Some feature requests on SAGE - Adding Engineering to the target audience

2010-08-02 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:38 PM, cousteau wrote: > I'm studying engineering, and I'm used to some programs such as > Matlab, Maple, etc. When I knew about SAGE I found it very powerful, > simple and well structured, but I quickly found out that it wouldn't > be very useful in engineering, which is

[sage-devel] Some feature requests on SAGE - Adding Engineering to the target audience

2010-08-02 Thread cousteau
I'm studying engineering, and I'm used to some programs such as Matlab, Maple, etc. When I knew about SAGE I found it very powerful, simple and well structured, but I quickly found out that it wouldn't be very useful in engineering, which is more oriented to numerical analysis and simple math opera