William Stein wrote: >>> http://alpha.sagenb.org/home/pub/3/ >>> >>> Jason >>> >> But Jason, You did not say which newsgroup data you used, to pull the >> data from and gave no reference/link. >> >> After looking, I see you used the >> >> sage-support >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/about?hl=en >> >> But actually you should also include sage-develop and any other sage >> newsgroup which would have made sage numbers higher still.
I think the source should be added to the graph, so someone knows roughly what they are looking at, without having to read a long post. Perhaps a link to the data on the Google site, would enhance it somewhat. > That would be interesting. I can see why he restricted to > sage-support though, to exclude developer discussions (like this one), > which for Mathematica would be done in the hall (or mailing list) at > WRI's illustrious office building. To add is sage-devel would not give a level playing field. >> But we are comparing apples with oranges here since Mathematics >> newsgroup is moderated, which means the traffic will always be less as >> a moderated group is a turn off for many users who are looking for >> help (students and others as well) and can't wait for 2-3 days to get >> help and wait 2-3 more days for follow up. > > The Sage mailing lists are also moderated. It's just that we're way > better at it :-) Even WRI employees can't post to there without the approval of the moderator! BTW, Steve, the moderator runs sunfreeware.com. >> btw, Matlab newsgroup gets more traffic than all the sage groups and >> Maple and Mathematica and probably all the R groups >> (gmane.comp.lang.*) combined :) > > How many messages per month to the matlab newsgroups? > > -- William In my experience in engineering, MATLAB does get used a lot more than Mathematica, so I am not at all surprised of this. In another post, Nassar poined out this link. If you have 18 minutes to spare, it is worth listening to. http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/11/12/the-rd-pipeline-for-mathematica/#more-2172 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
