On Apr 20, 3:57 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<SNIP>
> IMHO, I don't think removing lisp or maxima will happen anytime soon. Lots of
> topics are open for discussion on the sage-devel list, and William
> Stein of course
> makes the final decision,
David,
you are wrong about William making the final decision. While William
is "Benevolent Dictator for Life" of the Sage project his opinion has
lost on technical grounds once. One of the reason I switched to the
Sage project is because things are decided on a technical level by the
community.
> but I've not heard any specific plans for
> that. On the other hand,
> I think a lot of people would be very happy if SymPy could, as if by
> magic, implement
> all the functionality of Maxima and Axiom overnight:-)
That will not happen overnight, but as the Chinese proverb goes:
"Every long journey starts with the firs step". As people around here
should know by now Sage time can be different than real time. And many
people besides me see the dependency for basic symbolic arithmetic on
Maxima+pexpect as bad since it kills performance. That has much more
to do initially with Pexpect than Maxima, but once you benchmark
Maxima (on gcl to be fair) against some other systems on arithmetic it
loses. Integration, differentiation, limits and so on are a different
story, but Maxima seems not to be a leader there, especially compared
with the commercial systems. And that is what Sage competes with at
the end of the day.
<SNIP>
Cheers,
Michael
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