I would be interested in real word use cases, which demonstrate, why such a system is needed. E.g., I think Simon king did some cool things involving at least Singular, GAP, Cython...
On 30 Apr., 12:00, Roman Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, asking for contributors is the surest way to get zero > contributors. You should invite people to try Sage (online) and to > download it so it runs faster. > > Also, I thought of another great reason why they would like Sage. > Many of these people write their own libraries. Then you have to > write input and output routines to get data in and out of your > program. No sane person enjoys this. It's a horrible distraction and > a waste of time. But if they use Sage they can easily hook in their > libraries using (easy to learn) Python code. If possible, show a very > simple example. Something like: you type in a univariate polynomial > into Sage and then you call a C library, and use Python code to > construct a dense array for C. If the interface code fits on one > slide then you are sold. Just remove all the error checking and make > it as small as possible. If possible, return a nice result to Sage. > For example: use the C code to compute the derivative. It just shows > how easy it can be to interface a program with Sage. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---