On Nov 19, 2007 11:59 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Interestingly, this link says "Printing the code in this way does not > include any of the programmer's comments. If you want a separate copy > of the library source code, with comments, it is available from the > distributors for a set price. Some Maple procedures are coded > completely within the kernel. Their code is not available. If you try > to print them you see the following type of special procedure body." > > So you have to pay extra for the comments! Wow. That's truly bizarre.
Hmm, I am a former Maplesoft employee, and I have never, ever heard of the source code being available for reading for an extra price. I am not inclined to believe this remark. The fact that comments aren't available in the first place is not especially surprising: Maple is an interpreted language language like any other, and comments are the first thing to be stripped out whole parsing. Java bytecode doesn't have comments either :). Furthermore, with regard to the comment by Jason Grout that the use of the introspection tools was "encouraged by the Maple people in the above posts.", you should understand that the Maple Primes posts to which those links refer were made by various Maple enthusiasts unaffiliated with Maplesoft (albeit on a site run by Maplesoft). You shouldn't read anything about Maplesoft's position from them. Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
