I read this thread with some interest. I'm not sure anything new is being said; just different people saying it. Well, not all different.
I am curious as to the claim that Sage is very popular. Compared to? Maxima for Windows has seen something like 285,000 downloads. But that includes people who downloaded various versions. The most popular one had 80,600 downloads; the most recent release (8/13/2010) has had 7,500 in the last 17 days. Presumably some people use Maxima who don't download it from sourceforge, where I found this data. I suppose people who download Sage do not count in these totals. I know that Sage does all kinds of other things, simulating Magma and whatever. Is that what you are comparing it to? Is there some statistical summary somewhere? As for whether this belongs on sage-flame or not.. I think this discussion is totally mainstream, but then, so are a number of discussions on sage-flame. RJF -- 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
