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Subject: [Maxima] suboptimal versus non sense
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:12:10 +0000 (UTC)
From: miguel Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R. Dodiet said:
Miguel, I agree that some aspects of the Maxima language are suboptimal.
Should I use a political correct language to hide the reality,
a beautiful dress to hide the ugliness?
Well, i'm sure that any of you can conceptually understand the difference
between
1.- Due to scarse staff we can't make same changes in the code.
2.- The concepts are correct.
3.- Bla, Bla.
My studentes in four months must learn the following concepts:
Vector Calculus: Line integral, double and triple integral, multiple
integrals,
change of variables, surface integral, Stokes theorem, Divergence Theorem,
Green Theorem, Laplace Transform and ED (first order: homogeneous, exact,
integral factors, Bernoulli, linear) and Linear (indeterminate coefficients,
via Laplace, and operator method (invert a polynomial in the operator D).
Should I suggest a computer program that should generate about a googol of
questions and erros?
I'm nobody boss, not i'm going to fire somebody. But i want to say clearly
that there is a need for a clear concept of what is a bug
For a student list and matrices are a bug.
Vector Calculus package is a bug.
Why? Is suboptimal? No, clearly not.
Any of you can define curl, or div, or anything like that in four lines.
The problem is that there is not quality control
A good engineer would say, here students play 80 % or more, let's do
a program for students, a good one, one that talk like them not like an
expert mathematician.
Don't do it for me, i prefer you hate me, do it for the students population:
The say: Please eliminate thoses ideas that no one can foresee.
By the way, thinks a lot to everybody, education shine here.
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