On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:19 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks good to me. I think Python is actually in the top 5 languages > now, isn't it? > Maybe Perl is 5 and Python is 6?
In the latest TIOBE ranking it is #7: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html I think "top 10" is thus pretty reasonable given how vague that statement is. > In any case, my only suggestion is to emphasize the point that *you* > needed an alternative > to the M's by pointing out somehow that (a) the others are propritary > and therefore not > sufficiently customizable, (b) your field of speciality (modular > abelian varieties) > is an extremely technical mixture of a number of areas (algebraic > number theory, > algebraic geometry, group theory) and *therefore* you needed your > software to smoothly > combine and interface computations in these different fields. Bad > sentence construction, > I know, but that's my 2 cents. > > > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:49 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Robert Bradshaw > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On May 1, 2008, at 2:51 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I wrote a new version of my ISSAC talk abstract. What do you think: > > > > > > > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/tmp/abstract.pdf > > > > > > I think the previous abstract (version 2) is much better--this > > > abstract seems more a reaction to the recent threads on sage-devel > > > > Thanks for your patience with my experiments. Please see abstract number > 3: > > > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/tmp/abstract3.pdf > > > > Let me know what you think. It will probably piss off everybody, but > > I guarantee you it is the most honest thing I've ever written about Sage. > > > > -- William > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
