On Dec 3, 2007 11:32 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps my remarks weren't clear, or I misunderstood Ted's intent. > > No, I think you understood his intent perfectly. Part of the issue is that > Ted's target audience is utterly completely different than Enthought's. > > That said, I think it certainly can't hurt to see where Ted goes with what he > is > doing, and there will be people interested in using it. Open > source programming > is often about scratching and itch, and he has one, and it is certainly good > to > encourage it and see what it leads. E.g., what if he creates something that > works really well for certain well-defined classroom applications, and > that turns out to be > one of the biggest applications of Sage?
I certainly wasn't trying to dissuade Ted from 'scratching his itch', I hope it didn't come across that way. Rather my suggestion was for what *I* see as possibly better tools to scratch said itch. I actually happen to *really* like Ted's idea of a local client that is a partner to the browser-based notebook, since I think there's a good role for both. But I do think that a python-based stack, with out of the box 2d (Chaco2) and 3d (tvtk/mayavi) high quality data visualization, python editor, debugger, object inspectors, interactive shell, etc, will in the long run probably help him more to achieve his final goal than a Java-based stack. That was my only intent: to suggest tools that might be useful in getting where he wants to go, not in changing his direction. Cheers, f --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
