cool-RR wrote: > 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?
I like Mathematica, but a web based interface does not exist for it. (webMathematica has some uses, but its hardly too useful). I wrote a web based interface for Mathematica http://witm.sourceforge.net/ Here's a screen shot of it on a PDA http://witm.sourceforge.net/pda.php but it is primitive by Sage standards. Whilst the Mathematica GUI is fine when you want to look at results yourself, it is not very practical when you want to share them with others, who might be in a different country. I for example was some time ago doing some work in the UK, collaborating with people in two other European countries. The ability to show others results and let them make changes over the web would have been a huge advantage over anything Mathematica could have done. Then factor in the fact that few companies have Mathematica licenses, and you can see just how bad Mathematica is when you want to collaborate outside academia. (I base the fact that few companies use Mathematica on the fact that I've come across none myself, and a search of job adverts on monstir.com, PhdJobs etc requiring Mathematica skills brings up very few results. In contrast, do the same for MATLAB or Labview, and you will find that those products are used in industry, but I do not believe Mathematica is a lot, despite the impression Wolfram Research like to give. Dave -- 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
