On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 2/9/12 4:28 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> I think if we could get rid of a few magic commands in favor of 'mv', >> 'cp', and 'ln', it would make the process seem less daunting. > > > +1. And then the new user that is learning how to do sage has skills that > transfer elsewhere.
That's a slippery slope, but tempting when you get so used to UNIX from years of use, that it all seems trivial to you. Maybe you don't teach classes that involve a component on Sage development, but I do, and 95% (or more) of students don't have even the slightest clue about anything regarding UNIX. Making them learn UNIX at the same time as Sage development is a recipe for confusion, and I don't think it is necessary. What we really need to expand the contributor base substantially at this point is "total magic", so people can fully develop on Sage without ever having to use command such as mv, cp, hg, and ln, and of course this should be a web-based development environment. -- William > > Jason > > > > > -- > 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
