On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:21:11 -0700 (PDT), cousteau <cousteaulecommand...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with Simon in that developers may be reluctant to modify the > preparser unless it's strictly necessary. > An argument in favor of changing it would be Sage's mission: > "Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, > Mathematica and Matlab." > If Sage is going to be an alternative to Matlab, it would be a > precondition that matrix input were easy. In Matlab it's pretty easy > to enter matrices, so changing the preparser would make Sage more > usable as an alternative to Matlab.
If we take this so literally we would end up with either (a) 4 different ways of doing anything mirroring the syntax of each of Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab or (b) only the intersection of the four systems, which I think is pretty tiny. Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- http://aghitza.org/ Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- 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
