> > So this known problem (at least since 1974) was off the radar of the > > brainiacs > > who designed all those subsequent systems, including I suppose, Sage. > > I think it would be a huge overstatement to say that the symbolics > subsystem in Sage was "designed" in any way. IMHO, it was mostly > patched together to support educational use, then acquired more cruft > through several rewrite attempts and cramped schedules.
I was going to say basically the same thing - nice summary, except to say that it was patched together using Maxima's assumption framework, since that was the best thing going inside of Sage for this purpose. - kcrisman -- 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
