Well the biggest reason is just inertia: my department has been using mathematica for years, and everyone has a full set of computer labs and handouts and demos already done in mathematica. Why learn a new system and have to port everything over? We don't even directly pay for the license as a department, as far as I know, so there just isn't much motivation to change. My biggest selling points for sage are that the students can get it for their own computers for free, and I can set up a server so they can access it online. So realistically, I expect no one else will want to use sage in fall 2008. But if I get good feedback from students, and offer to help port mathematica labs to sage, maybe I can win some folks over. Incidentally, this is one reason I think it is crucial to get an R interface for sage ASAP. I think I could convince our stats faculty to give sage a try if it had R, and then I could argue that we should use sage for consistency across the department; it would also start exposing our grad students to sage. -Marshall
On Jul 11, 2:38 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/11/07, Hamptonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I would be willing to chip in some effort on the mathematica.sage > > file, although not in the very near future. I plan to begin migrating > > my undergraduate courses to sage from mathematica for fall semester > > 2008. I hope to convince other faculty do to the same, but it won't > > be easy. I am mainly interested in the mathematica.sage effort as a > > way to make it easier for my colleagues to port their labs to sage. > > Thanks! Let me know what happens. And definitely feel free to > post a list of the reasons migrating from Mathematica to SAGE > "definitely won't be easy". Obviously, bad 3d graphics support > is one reason, but I would love to hear about any and all other > reasons as they arise. I want to be as aware as possible about them, > so we have some hope of addressing as soon as possible. > > -- 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
