On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:25 PM, john_perry_usm <john.pe...@usm.edu> wrote: > On Thursday, March 21, 2013 8:15:05 AM UTC-5, kcrisman wrote: >> >> Despite the overall positive tone, I have to say my favorite quote is: >> >> "I can not help but editorialize that installing and using SageTeX took me >> approximately 4 hours of hair tearing frustration — it is comparable in >> difficulty to capturing the pegasus." > > > I'd say that capturing the Pegasus required either a lot more or a lot less > than 4 hours, depending on how you read the tale. On the other hand, perhaps > he just means to say that Sage is as elegant and useful as Pegasus, in which > case I concur wholeheartedly. :-)
Fateman famously asked [1] over 7 years ago "Is SAGE an elephant with feathers?" and then concluded that Sage "is essentially doomed". Now we see the hole in his argument -- Sage is a horse with feathers, not an elephant! [1] http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.math.symbolic/2005-12/msg00096.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
