On 13 May 2014 18:39, <kroe...@uni-math.gwdg.de> wrote: > David Kirkby wrote: > >> >> I have suggested in the past that William buy copies of some books on >> the subject of "software engineering" for regular developers. I am >> fairly sure it is something he could justify. But to the best of my >> knowledge he has not done it. >> > > Don't worry about that too much. William cannot solve all problems. > > Here is my story: when I suggested to the Singular-team to organize > workshops for practical problems in programming for new PhD students in the > project, > they didn't answer and I guess now they think I'm an alien *g. > As far as I know, some member mentioned internally (maybe in a different > context), > the project is about _math_ and not about software engineering.
The project is about math, but the deliverables are software. > So I'm questioning, can we do something else? > If you think it is useful to spend books about writing software to sage > developers, > can't >you< try to get grant money for that from somewhere? No, since I do not work in an academic environment, but are managing director of a communications company. It is *totally* outside my control. But I do buy books for things that are relevant to my work, and can justify them as a business expense. Dave -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
