"The aim is to provide software that can be used to explore and experiment with mathematicas."
First off, I think you don't want an extra "a" in mathematics. I think the SAGE community has, by and large, taken an anti-mathematica standpoint. ;) Second, that sentence makes SAGE sound like fluff. You send 12 year olds to summer camp to explore and expermient. "Free and open source: If you use SAGE to do computations in a classroom or paper you publish, you can rest assured that users world- wide will always be able to use your code due to free access to SAGE and all its source code." This one makes me feel funny. The phrase "rest assured" sounds like something an insurance salesman would say. "Efficient: SAGE uses highly-optimized robust components that are very fast at certain basic arithmetical operations." _basic_ operations? What, we optimized the hell out of 2+2? Who cares? We've got fast p-adics, graph isomorphism, groebner bases... this is *much* cooler than *certain* basic arithmetic. Nix this for something like, "Agile: SAGE recieves contributions from dozens of mathematicians worldwide to bring the latest algorithms from a broad range of topics, into a comprehensive toolkit for mathematics research." The last paragraph is absolutely wonderful. On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, David Joyner wrote: > > Hi: > > William Stein and I have written a draft > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/research/oscas-ams-notices4.pdf > which seems suitable (based on suggestions and criteria given to us by > the editor > Andy Magid). Thoughts anyone? > > - David Joyner > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
