On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Martin Rubey <[email protected]> wrote: > > William Stein <[email protected]> writes: > >> How is fricas going these days, by the way?
[I think this is on topic given the topic of this thread, and that FriCAS is open source math software.] > I think, very very well. It's amazing how much improvement is possible even > if > only very few people work with that code. Of course, you could also read that > as "the code was very shitty, it's easy to improve" :-) Is the main improvement implementing the sort of stuff below, or something else? Are you guys fixing bugs? How do you organize development right now (an issue tracker website, wiki page, etc.?) > Yesterday night I implemented closure properties for holonomic and algebraic > functions (zero test and algebraic substitution still missing). ADE's are > coming. > > Waldek's normalize is now nearly a zero test for elementary functions, if I > understand right. I guess, one of the next steps is to separate "Expression" > and meromorphic functions, to allow proper treatment of branch cuts. > > I have been delayed by Aldor uncertainty, but it seems clear now that NAG and > Stephen Watt are unwilling/unable to release it, so it's clear now what to > work What does "it's clear now what to work on" mean? I.e., that you'll improve a compiler that is not Aldor? Or another Aldor compiler? > on. And Waldek is gifted enough to improve the compiler steadily. Of course, > we are also cooperating with Gaby Dos Reis, who is working on the compiler, > too. It's a pity that Python is not Aldor :-) > > Martin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
