I am in the process of putting together some marketing materials for Sage and I need something more descriptive than just calling Sage "math software".
Since I started using Sage around a year ago, I have been trying to figure out how to categorize it. I discovered Sage through this Computer Algebra System (CAS) comparison table: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_algebra_systems but it has been suggested on the Sage lists to not describe Sage as simply a CAS because it is much more than this. The tutorial describes Sage as "free, open-source math software", but I don't think that describing Sage as simply "math software" is adequate either. Here is how Wolfram Research describes Mathematica: "Mathematica 6: The World's Most Powerful Global Computing Environment Mathematica is a complete technical computing environment that seamlessly integrates numeric and symbolic computations, interactive document capabilities, an advanced programming language, and powerful connectivity." They describe Mathematica as a "Global Computing Environment" which I think this is a more comprehensive description than CAS or just "math software" for what systems like this really are, but I don't think that this description will work very well for Sage because it does not have the word "math" in it. I think Wolfram can use this description because Mathematica does have the word "math" in it so that people who read the advertisement can infer that "global" means computing + mathematics. I really like the words "computing" and "environment", though, so what about calling Sage a "Mathematics Computing Environment"? 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
