On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:11 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting project I was just made aware of. Anyone (say, anyone at > Oxford...) know more? > > http://www2.maths.ox.ac.uk/chebfun/about/ > > What I find particularly interesting is that they went to OSS fairly early, > but of course it relies on proprietary underneath with Matlab; they're > open-sourcing everything they can, and of course Matlab is pretty available > compared to other programs.
For what it's worth, Trefethen (the project founder) dropped by my office a few years ago and basically asked me to sell him on switching to open source, and give him my advice. I did, plus tell him about http://producingoss.com/. I expressed disappointment by their reliance on Matlab, and especially that they use core language features of Matlab that evidently not available in Octave (at least at the time). I don't know what you mean by "Matlab is pretty available compared to other programs." -- William > > - kcrisman > > -- > 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. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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.
