[sage-support] Re: Sage vs Maple/Mathematica/Matlab: what elements are better + what is mostly lacking?

2008-06-08 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Jurgis Pralgauskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > as the vision of SAGE is to be alternative to MMM, True. > what do You think is mostly lacking now? This depends a huge amount on what you want and why you are asking. > and, what is better than in MM

[sage-support] Re: Sage vs Maple/Mathematica/Matlab: what elements are better + what is mostly lacking?

2008-06-09 Thread Jurgis Pralgauskis
I am making a presentation on SAGE in university (for PhD students math/informatics) so this is quite general quoestion in university context I can stress first years course and for research I understand that it depends :) but well, people working with the soft should feel some points On Mon, Ju

[sage-support] Re: Sage vs Maple/Mathematica/Matlab: what elements are better + what is mostly lacking?

2008-06-09 Thread Marshall Hampton
Hi, I'll take a stab at answering this. In comparison with Matlab, perhaps the biggest thing that Sage is missing is the huge 3rd-party ecosystem of scientific computing and engineering scripts/plugins and the extra toolboxes for specific applications. Sage's use of python helps a lot with this