On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Burcin Erocal <bur...@erocal.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:44:48 -0800 > "William Stein" <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <snip> >> I noticed Burcin said the following in IRC, which is related to the >> above distinction: >> >> "12:58 < burcin> I thought this was the goal all along, I don't see >> why we needed a new discussion about this" >> >> One reason we need a new discussion is that in August 2008 you and I >> spent a few weeks creating Pynac and getting it into Sage. I did >> nothing subsequently on that project (Pynac, etc.) during the last 4 >> months, and I think this discussion is a good way to also revisit >> that. > > And more importantly, I didn't do anything (visible) during these 4 > months. (4 months, wow!) Though, I implemented some of the "algebra" > that Tim Daly mentioned in another thread, which is required for > summation at least. I am feeling the need for a user interface for the > summation more and more, so I added a bunch of things to the pynac > interface, but didn't have a chance to push them into Sage yet.
Very interesting and exciting! > I am still committed to working on pynac, and the basic symbolics in > Sage. Unfortunately, I am not very motivated to work on some features > which are requested the most by users, such as plotting. I am kind of > hoping these will "just work," when the switch is done, but that might > not be the case any more, since I am seriously considering changing the > __call__ behaviour of symbolic expressions. This change, and how to get > some of these functions could be something we discuss at SD12. You don't have to do everything yourself. I and other people are committed to helping. It just takes some amount of organization. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
