John wrote: > This is a basic mathematics/CS divide. Mathematicians will expect > their vectors of length n to have indices 1..n and similarly for > matrices and so on. The packages pari and magma use that convention > accordinly, since they are written for mathematicians to be as close > to mathematical notation as possible, and this is a great help to > getting mathematicians to do computations. > > I think there's a real problem if we tell mathematicians tat to use > SAGE properly they have to both learn programming in a language they > have probably never heard of (sorry, but that is the case with pyhton > and mathematicians) and also re-learn habits of a lifetime. There is > a very steep learning curve involved in learning a new package in any > case -- it took me years to get a "feel for" magma, and I still don't > have a good one for SAGE -- and it does not take a lot to put people > off. > > Sorry if this sounds negative, but I have a feeling that sage-devel > has more CS people in it than mathematicians!
What is Sage's target market? It seems to me that determining an answer to this question should be a high priority item :-) ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
