1) There's a Windows port underway. We'd LOVE for Sage to be a native windows app, despite all of the headache that doing that will cause for some people around here. This "huge corpus of available mathematical algorithms and packages" is largely unsupported on Windows, so the main sticking point for the Windows port is that it's a windows port of a huge corpus of available mathematical packages, which are even hard to get running in Solaris (another Unix)!
2) The notebook can make math look awesome; much better than mathematica IMHO. Now, we don't support the gui editing of formulas like they do; but you can make the output quite nice. For example, here's something that I wrote up recently http://sagenb.org/home/pub/1087/ 3) Sage is almost entirely supported by volunteers. Want a sexy gui? Write one! Want a native Windows app? Get crackin'! On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:20 PM, cool-RR <ram.rac...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 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 -- 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
