On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Aleksej Saushev <a...@inbox.ru> wrote: > William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 2009/11/15 Serge A. Salamanka <salsa-...@tut.by>: >>> >>> I can see no dots in Russia also. >>> I guess that the problem of free mathematical software doesn't exist in >>> our scientific world - Mathematica is actually free and it will stay >>> until the time Mathematica supports russian language in the program >>> interface and documentation. >> >> Do Russians care about open source -- e.g., one can change Sage much >> more than one can change Mathematica. Also, Sage has vastly more >> capabilities in number theory and algebraic combinatorics than >> Mathematica, but this will only matter to specialists. > > Yes, we care about open source. > > I have report from one person that Sage is useless because it doesn't > provide anything more than its constituent parts.
What does that even mean? Is it some subtle expression that I'm missing? In English we have the expression "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts". Taken at face value in the context of Sage, the above statement is completely false, and could only be made by somebody who has never used Sage for more than a second. I could definitely see somebody making the above statements about Python(x,y) or Enthought's Python Distribution. -- William -- 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
