mabshoff wrote: > > > On Apr 2, 6:44 pm, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> WIMS can be made more viable by integrating Sage! I don't see any profit >> the other way around. Interfacing to WIMS seems to be problematic. >> >> Jaap > > I think WIMS is quote nice and does mostly address the educational > market. Sage could certainly take a look at the modules they have for > classes and courses. Most of their teaching material seems to be in > French with some of it also available in Spanish, Dutch and Cantonese > [or is it Mandarin - since there is no such thing as Chinese] and > several other languages. > > As far as combining Sage as an engine for WIMS: It should be fairly > easy looking at the Interface code, but the subset of functionality > they use from pari is small and they do not seems to use the pari C > interface at all. It is also GPL V2 or later. > > My Conclusion? I don't know if there is more than potential for cross > pollination. Do you know the developers or somebody from the > community? Are they aware of Sage? Have they voiced interest? > There is not much of a community as far as I know. I had some contacts with the one and only developer Xiao Gang, but as I said this is long time ago (> 5 years). At that time I'm pretty sure they were not aware of Sage :-)! Maybe now after Sage won the Trophées du Libre? WIMS can greatly win by adopting Sage! Jaap --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
