On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune <bjarke.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > People have been writing mathematics software for a long time and so > people have been accumulating experiences about good ways and bad ways > to do things. I'm wondering how much Sage development is informed by > that experience and however much it is, I think it is worthwhile to > think about how to increase that. Is this something that has been > discussed here? > > Given some feature, how to find out what experiences other people have > had in implementing it before? One way is to have the people with > those experiences directly involved in developing Sage or at least > have them on sage-devel. A second is to identify these people and ask > them what they think. A third is to examine other systems and see what > kinds of advantages and disadvantages their designs entail (open > source systems allows to read the code, too). A fourth is to search > the literature for anything relevant. An with all of these except that > first is that they delay development by adding steps beyond coding the > first seemingly reasonable thing that comes to mind. That is both good > and bad. > > I thought to open this topic here because of a recent discussion on > sage-flame, and I'm hesitant to do so since it has the potential to > generate lots of talk to no benefit.
IMO, what happens on sage-flame should stay on sage-flame. > On the other hand, it seems to me > that if a good way can be found to benefit even a little more from > past experience, that could have a significant impact on the quality > of Sage. My impression is that asking the people with the relevant > experience rarely happens, unless those people are already on sage- > devel and choose to speak up, and doing more of that seems a low- > effort way to benefit a little more from past experience. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
