I'm curious if GiNaC has been evaluated for use in SAGE as an alternate symbolic engine. http://www.ginac.de/ And a nice quick comparison to alternatives: http://www.ginac.de/tutorial/A-Comparison-With-Other-CAS.html#A-Comparison-With-Other-CAS
It seems like it really fits in well with the philosophy of the new symbolic calculus support, but I don't think it's anywhere close to featureful enough to replace maxima. However, being a C++ library, it should be ideally embeddable. The most obvious missing ability is integration, but differentiation and series expansion appear to be supported. Disclaimer: I've not used GiNaC at all, but I've been impressed with the philosophy and design of the project for awhile now. I certainly don't know anything about it's speed or robustness. The tutorial appears well done and has some examples which imply a fair bit of thought has gone into things. -- Joel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
