On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:46:37 -0800 (PST) kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But now it's a moot point. Maxima uses Lisp; Sage has Python; XYZ has > WTQ; etc. For some people Python is a selling point; let it be a > selling point, then. > Python is definitely a selling point since - there already ARE many people who knows Python thus it would be much easier for them to get used to Sage. - once Python is learnt, one may use his Python programming skills in many many ways - not only for Sage. - one need not learn different programming languages to use all the software that comes within Sage (Lisp, C,...) - Python is one of the easiest programming languages to learn (my own experience; and I have some programming practice in some old BASICs, Pascal, Delphi, C/C++ and now a bit in Python - so it is not "my favourite programming languages of 2 programming languages I know"). - Python is a general purpose and widely used language; and Sage (as far as I know) is the first mathematics software package to use such language (I mean the de-facto existing programming language) instead of inventing their own bicycle. Regards, Vladimir ----- <v...@ukr.net> -- 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
