On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:20 PM, mhampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think he would be interested in something like the simple_server > API: > > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sagenb/simple/twist.html > > ...but I don't understand it well enough so I didn't try to explain it > to him (Barry MacKichan). > > Currently MacKichan uses mupad as a backend; the acquisition by > MathWorks has made this less attractive to them in a variety of ways I > think. > > It might even make sense to have people who understand the notebook > and its communication with Sage have a conference call with him soon.
For the record, we are completely rewriting the "notebook and its communication with Sage" right now, since it kind of sucks :-). > > -Marshall > > On Jan 7, 9:43 pm, john_perry_usm <john.pe...@usm.edu> wrote: >> Hi >> >> The ceo of MacKichan Software came by the booth to ask how easy it >> might be to integrate sage into their big software package (Scientific >> Workplace). I'm not sure that those of us there were able to give him >> a specific answer (correct me if I'm wrong, guys, my memory is awful); >> for example, I don't know enough to say whether sage can respond to >> "ordinary" channels of inter-process communication (in fact, although >> I know what IPC is, I don't know what the "ordinary" channels are). >> >> He did express a high degree of interest in it, so I told him I'd >> inquire on the list, and we'd try to get back to him. Besides, I'm >> curious myself; if someone wanted to invoke Sage from another program, >> is there a canonical and efficient way to do that besides (say) >> writing a script, calling >> sage < script_filename > output_filename >> and reading output_filename? >> >> (and would that work on Windows, anyway? given the constraints of >> vmware. you see how ignorant i am.) >> >> john perry > > -- > 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 > -- 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
