On 30 May 2014 17:42, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/. >
You certainly did a good job of convincing him since not long after that was when I met him, and he told me that his opinion of os had been completely changed by his conversation with you! John > 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. -- 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.
