William Stein wrote: > One problem I personally had wasn't the same sort of forced transition > from CAS X to CAS Y like you had, but that the sole "CAS" I could use > was Magma, since it was literally the only program out there capable > of doing pretty much any of the interesting computational mathematics > I need for my teaching or research. Not only were all my eggs in one > basket, so to speak, but buying a single license of Magma costs well > over $1000, and that is *with* the academic discount. That situation > was just very frustrating for me, not because I couldn't get Magma (I > got it for free as a developer), but that so many other students and > colleagues couldn't get it. > > Also, I think the technology in Magma overall is not up to snuff > compared to what I saw as possible, and that situation is not > changing. (I mean that Magma's capabilities in graphics, Cython-like > compilation, user defined types, viewing of source code, etc., are > poor.) There was just no rational choice but to switch.
I had to chuckle when I read your last sentence. "Switch", as in, "spend an enormous amount of time *creating* an alternative and another enormous amount of time guiding its development"! Of anyone who can claim to have invested lots of time into "switching", I think you can take the cake. Thanks again for all of your hard work. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
