On 7/11/07, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the init file idea needs to be pushed harder. I already do this and > the > flexibility is absolutely critical to my happiness. I even have my init file > call another file in the current directory so I can have different things > defined depending on which project I'm working on (Of course, that idea > doesn't > have much merit from the notebook). > > We could publish init files for various CAS's. I realize we can't match > semantics, but for myself I don't think the semantics are the hard part -- the > hard part is remembering the new function name. > > We could also publish init files for various branches of mathematics -- > applied, > number theory, etc. > > I realize this could lead to support questions when people do dumb things in > their init file, but I think it is easily worth to publish this huge amount of > flexibility.
I think this is definitely worth a try, and will probably be pretty fun to do. It may or may not be successful (e.g., if you type foo? the examples could easily fail because of how you customized your session -- this could be very bad). It would make sense to do something like this at least for the following systems, in order of priority: 1. mathematica 2. matlab 3. maple 4. magma 5. pari 6. gap For some of these, it is hard to think of where to begin, since there are thousands of commands (e.g., matlab has over 8000 commands). One could begin by creating a "mathematica.sage" that defines common commands like Integrate Sin Cos Derivative (?) N etc., with the case conventions of mathematica. This file could look like: Integrate = integrate Sin = sin Cos = cos ... N = RDF # or something more sophisticated?? I.e., take number of digits as input... ... Thoughts? Volunteers? William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
