On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 at 12:51AM +0100, Nathann Cohen wrote: >> I have been contacted by an enlightened colleague who planned to teach a >> bit of Sage at the local university, instead of Magma and Mathematica as it >> was formerly done. Now, enthusiasm is a wonderful thing that can achieve >> many things by itself, and for instance to the scary task of translating a >> semester's worth of Magma/Mathematica exercises and lecture notes into Sage >> ones. >> >> But really.. Wouldn't it be much much easier if someone around here already >> knew of an index of equivalents between Mathematica/Sage or Magma/Sage >> ? :-) > > Such a document would be nice...but I remember when I decided to learn > emacs (after many years with vim). I found a couple such "dictionaries", > but ultimately they weren't that helpful. You just need to think a > little differently when using emacs rather than vim. > > But as a starting point, such a document would be useful.
It would have the additional value of uncovering functionality that is missing in Sage, but which should be there. -- William > > Dan > > -- > --- Dan Drake > ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake > ------- -- 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
