I'm a newbie to Sage. There are a few things I don't understand, I hope someone can explain. I may be making an idiot of myself here, please be patient and explain to me.
I understood that the goal is to take from the huge corpus of available mathematical algorithms and packages, and combine them in one seamless package (Which is a huge amount of work, of course.) Is that true? I think that is a very important goal. But I see Sage, and there are things I don't understand. (Note: last time I installed Sage was about a year ago, though in the last week I've been playing with it again on the web interface.) I understand that you have to run Sage as a sort of server. I remember I had to use VMWare. And then you access it from the browser, and it's an AJAX thing that makes it behave like a notebook. Why? Why not something like Mathematica, where you just open a normal program and have a place where you can just type text? Also, that AJAX thing, while pretty impressive relatively to something that's being done in the browser, doesn't display expressions nicely, in "mathematical style", but instead shows them in "programmer style". Don't you think it's a big disadvantage? Sorry if I'm missing obvious things. Please enlighten me. Ram. -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
