On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Tom Boothby <tomas.boot...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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/ > > Wow, that is quite nice - beautiful really. I like this choice too: <style>#jsMath_Warning {display: none}</style>. -Alex > 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 > -- Alex Clemesha clemesha.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
