On 2014-12-05, Nathann Cohen <nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > --f46d0438906335ad0d050972df25 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Helloooooo everybody ! > > I am preparing some Sage talk, and I wanted to say at some point: "Honestly > we are not that good. We have strong points but we miss many things too. It > all depends on what the developpers are interested in: we are great on some > research areas, and under water level on others"
some pedestrian-level representation theory of associative algebras (I already mentioned this a while ago when Anne asked about what they can do witnin their grant project...) support for sparse matrices over R and C is lacking in a big way (and in general sparse matrices are very slow etc;) > > Somehow this question is also related to William's "Sage has failed", as we > cannot be a replacement for Mathematica/Maple/.... unless we cover all > kinds of mathematics. > > In your past experiences (possibly when using Sage to teach in a > classroom), in which areas do you think we are behind users' expectations ? > > If we had such a list, we could even start asking people around "Do you > work on X ? Cool, we need your help for something big". We could also have > a list of such domains on our website, and do some (cheap) propaganda like: > > "Sage as in 'Free Beer': if you can help us develop Sage's features in the > areas above, we owe you one. Actually we owe you many. Become a contributor > and be rewarded with a free beer from every Sage developper you will meet > around the world" > > We have to know what we cannot do. So let's make a list. > > Nathann > -- 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.
