On Nov 21, 9:12 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Sage lists have had about 20,000 messages so far this year.
I just brought up sage-support. It says on the bottom of the screen
1 - 30 of 3492
I put "maxima" in the search box and searched that group.
I got "2,640 results for maxima ". I have no simple way to search
for "messages that I am able to understand" whether they include the
word "maxima" or not.
So if you use sage-support as a measure of what percentage of users of
Sage are really using Maxima --- (I am not necessarily endorsing this
metric, but anyway...) there you are.
If you are interested in what percentage of number theorists are using
system X,Y, or Z, I don't see any similar approach.
Now Sage-devel has 34,253 messages according to the initial screen,
just now.
A search for "maxima" yields 4,830 hits.
I think that this has less to do with popularity than with the
interests of "developers" who are presumably a much smaller, if
chattier, group. Obviously the messages are not evenly distributed
amongst all 100+ included packages, even there.
I don't know how to search in the 20,000 messages "this year".
Do you count Axiom, Reduce, and Maxima as "opponents" of Sage, too??
Or do you only count commercial programs?
RJF
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