On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Martin Albrecht <m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de> 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? >> >> The sage server has a shell (terminal, command-line) interface. >> It is based on the excellent ipython shell which has additional >> features over python (tab completion, better help, and loads more). > > Strictly speaking this isn't true. The command line interface does not use any > client-server methodology, it is "just" iPython + the huge Sage Python > library.
By "sage server", the original poster meant "Sage virtual machine", which he described as a server, I guess because (1) it is a Linux box, and (2) it does serve the web version of Sage. But thanks for the clarification. > > So Sage can be used: > - as a "normal program" > - as a local webserver with an HTML interface > - as a server over the network > - as a library in one's Python scripts > > Cheers, > Martin > > -- > name: Martin Albrecht > _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 > _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF > _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb > _jab: martinralbre...@jabber.ccc.de > > -- > 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 -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.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
