On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:13 PM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sunday, November 30, 2014 9:03:39 PM UTC-8, William wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 8:14 PM, rjf <fat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 1:35:21 PM UTC-8, William wrote: >>>> >>>> See this interesting document: >>>> >>>> http://www.maplesoft.com/products/maple/compare/HowMapleCom >>>> parestoMathematica.pdf >>>> >>>> Thanks for pointing it out. For a marketing document it is not too >>> bad, but >>> it is still a marketing document. Maybe that's what you want, but from >>> a technical >>> standpoint it has some issues. >>> >> >> Definitely a marketing document is what I want. That's why I explicitly >> list "potential users" as part of the target audience. >> >> >>> >>> >>>> It would be valuable to our users (and potential users) if we had a >>>> similar document which explains and *argues* for why we believe our >>>> approach to mathematical software is better than the ones taken by >>>> Mathematica, Magma, Maple, and Matlab. >>>> >>> >>> I think it would be totally confusing to present examples from all those >>> programs >>> and contrast them with Sage, and all the variants available in Sage. >>> >> >> That's easily solved -- e.g., have four versions, one for each Ma. A >> prospective reader would only read one of them. >> > > But there might be 5 different programs accessible to Sage to do the > same thing. Maybe there is always one easily identifiable "correct > choice"? > But I doubt it. >
Sorry, I was talking about the other side, namely what Sage is being compared with. With Sage itself there is usually a canonical good way to do something, but I don't expect you to understand that since my understanding is that you have never actually used Sage. >> >>> Sage has many packages with duplicative routines, but apparently >>> disparate treatment of edge problems. The advantage of having >>> someone with a Wolfram-like ego, plus a majority ownership of the >>> business, is that he can make a decision without reference to a >>> Code of Conduct. >>> >> >> Having 750 fulltime employees is another advantage... >> > Many of them marketing droids. > >> >> If one wanted to create a marketing document, which is what this thread is about, then having many marketing droids would indeed be an advantage. William -- 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.
