On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:55 PM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 1 November 2010 22:21, Hypercube <eviatarb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Cellular automata have proved to be a useful tool for modelling >> discrete systems in various applications, so I think it could be >> useful to a wide scope of researchers. At least "A New Kind of >> Science" seems to have brought it out of its niche, partially. > > I don't know how many copies were sold, but there are several hundred > reviews of his book, so it makes me think there would be interest in > this. > > That said, I expect a lot of the people that bought the book have > never read it in full. I think it can be useful for insomnia. > >> However, I think the main reason why it's so prominent in Mathematica >> is because of Wolfram's interest in it. > > Yes, that is most certainly true. I doubt it would have the prominence > it does if it was not for Steven Wolfram's interest. > >> MATLAB doesn't have native >> support for CAs, for example. I don't think it would hurt to have it >> in Sage though. > > MATLAB is aimed at quite a different set of users to Mathematica. But > there are several files in the file exchange area that are related. > > http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=tag%3A%22automata%22 > > So I think it would be worth adding in Sage.
I just want to second David's opinion that this is worth adding to Sage. Generally speaking, *anything* that is a nontrivial part of any of the standard distributions of Maple, Magma, Matlab, and Mathematica is well worth including in Sage, given the goal of Sage being a viable alternative to the Ma's. This means at least being able to do what they do, "out of the box". -- William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
