The manifesto seems not to adress computer algebra systems since it is about code written specifically for processing data for a published paper. Since the code in sage is intended for use by multiple scientist and not for a specific paper it seems not really legit to discuss how well sage fits the manifesto. It seems to be intended specifically for the code written by researchers using something like sage, one of the ma* or general purpose languages like c++ etc.
Altough I agree with what they say in the manifesto, I would say that what they say there is really a bare minimum. For example they do not even insist that the source code should be licenced in such a way that you can use it for scientific purposes. So the manifesto does not guarantee that the code equivalent of citing another persons result is possible (with this I mean that you write a program using depending on the functions the other researcher wrote). Maarten -- 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
