> > Exactly. And also the mission statement: viable alternative to the Ma's - > that is tricky! >
I have always felt a tad confused and mislead by this statement. As someone who has interacted over the years with physicists and engineers using daily Mathematica, Maple and Matlab, I see very little overlap between their typical use of these tools and the typical usages of SAGE, at least from the point of view of a lurker on this list. It seems like SAGE caters to (and is run mostly by) researchers in pure mathematics, and that is little interest on other use cases. Pragmatically, it seems to me that a sizeable chunk of people "doing mathematics on a computer" is today better served in the Python space by the Numpy/SciPy/SymPy/Matplotlib stack as an alternative to the Ma's rather than SAGE. This is of course completely fine! I am not questioning anyone's motives, inclinations or desires. But IMO continuing to push the idea that SAGE aims to be a viable alternative to the Ma's tout-court risks of being a source of confusion. Cheers, Francesco. -- 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.
