On 22/08/2008, at 5:18 AM, William Stein wrote:
> Please ask questions, make comments, and keep this thread going! I don't know how much of the below is possible or available in Sage. But I miss they syntax from Mathematica. I love the fact that it doesn't wear down the little fingers on your right hand. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (elegant, clear, no matching of brackets) f /@ data (good extension of good syntax) {#, f[#]}& /@ data (so dirty, so quick, a bit hard on pinky) data /. x_?(# < 0 &) -> 0 (this is perhaps not the killer example) y == a x^2 + b x + c (so easy to type, so easy to parse by eye) Probably the thing that makes all that learnable and useable in Mathematica is how a multiple click shows you the structure of your expression. The virtuous solution might be to write a "Sage for Mathematica junkies" document. D ================================== David J Philp Postdoctoral Fellow National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Building 62, cnr Mills Rd & Eggleston Rd The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 8260 F: +61 2 6125 0740 M: 0423 535 397 W: http://nceph.anu.edu.au/ CRICOS Provider #00120C --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---