On 4 January 2011 05:55, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Jan 2, 2:14 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> > ... > >> Sometimes Richard can be helpful, and obviously knows quite a bit about >> mathematical software. But for reasons known only to Richard, he devotes a >> large >> proportion of his time being negative, unhelpful and generally obnoxious. >> > > It's an antidote to excessive optimism and, in some cases, the voice > of experience. If you are standing on the shoulders of others > (sort of the idea behind Sage), that's one thing. If you are standing > on their feet, that's another.
It's not just with Sage. If I read sci.math.symbolic and see something written by Daniel Lichtblau, it is going to be written with the intension of helping someone. Obviously Daniel's primarily helping with Mathematica issues, as he works for Wolfram Research, but he is just a genuinely helpful guy. He does not act as a Mathematica sales person, and does not dismiss Sage, In fact, quite the opposite, Daniel has been helpful to me when it was clear my intension was to solve Sage issues using Mathematica. If I took a random post of yours on sci.math.symbolic, there's a pretty high probability its just a dig at someone or some software package that's neither Lisp or Maxima. > If I felt that someone was excessively pessimistic about the chance > of achieving something, I would maybe have some words of > encouragement. You seem to be so anti-Sage, without even trying it, that I can't actually imagine that day myself. > I don't recall that happening in Sage-world. > RJF Dave -- 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
