On May 1, 2008, at 5:49 PM, William Stein 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.
I like it. Here's a couple more suggestions: - In the second sentence the word "stupid" seems too informal. Maybe unwise/foolish? (Neither of these are as strong though.) - I think there should be a specific rebuttal to Fateman's claims, even a simple "Fortunately, he has since been proven wrong." Also, in this paragraph about Sage's growth, it might be worth having a sentence about how it has greatly overflowed its bounds as a number- theoery only tool to cover a wide range mathematics. - Givaro isn't really "high precision arithmetic" but I can't think of where it fits better - The second-to-last paragraph feels a bit disjointed. What is meant by "instead?" It also de-emphasizes the contribution of new code and makes it unclear that Sage can do a lot without the 4 M's (whereas I think you intended to say if you have the commercial software, it integrates well). I think this is just due to lots of editing. I really like the last paragraph. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
