From a social point of view, I think this would be a great idea. However, Mathematica contains many functions that have no equivalent in Sage. You might find yourself re-implementing Mathematica from scratch.
-David On Dec 24, 5:15 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am thinking for a long time already of writing an interpreter, in > Python of course, of the Mathematica > language: > > http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=161 > > that would call Sage (or SymPy) as a backend to do the actual > calculations. People would > just take their Mathematica code, and execute it directly in Sage. So > that they could > use Sage immediatelly. See the issue above for some details. I quite > like the idea of > telling my professor - you don't have to download 450MB download and you don't > have to steal it in order to use it from home, you can just download 200MB > Sage > and use your program freely everywhere. And when people start using Sage, > even though with Mathematica programs, I think they will just switch to Python > with new programs. > > What are your thoughts - especially from the social point of view - is > it a bad or good idea? > > Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
