On Nov 13, 4:13 pm, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 13, 6:32 am, "Johan S. R. Nielsen" <j.s.r.niel...@mat.dtu.dk> > wrote: > > > two info boxes on this suggested "Why Sage"-page. > > > I don't think that Python is the perfect language to write mathematics > > software with; I would definitely vote on a much more functional > > language here, e.g. OCaml or maybe even Haskell. However, this would > > cut out so many potential developers, > > ... yada yada... > > excessive boosterism. > > Consider that symbolic software systems like Maxima/Macsyma, Reduce, > Axiom, Jacal ... > were written in Lisp, > > and that Mathematica and Maple were written in C dialects... > > and even YOU would prefer a different, more functional language. > > And then you say Python is still better. > > Certainly not for writing math software. Maybe for writing web > applications? > > Because it has a coherent syntax???? Compared to Lisp or Haskell or > OCaml? > Because people who know little mathematics and little about > programming > can write/alter/debug applications for SAGE??? About which they > presumably know > nothing? And this is because Python is such a winner? > > And of course so much of SAGE is not even in Python, but C, Fortran, C+ > +, Lisp, whatever, > that even that is nonsense. > > excessive boosterism. > > At best, you might say, some features of Sage can be augmented by > writing in Python, and > the user interface looks like Python (actually it is not, but has to > be pre-processed). > > RJF
Seems to me that either I completely failed at expressing my ideas clearly, or you failed at reading my post properly. Either way, I get no enjoyment out of discussing in that kind of mode and tone, so I'll just leave it at my last post. Johan -- 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
