On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Francesco Biscani <bluesca...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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.
1. Magma is also an Ma. Magma's incredibly good at pure mathematics. You seem to be leaving out Magma above. 2. You say "... better served in the Python space by the Numpy/SciPy/SymPy/Matplotlib stack as an alternative to the Ma's rather than SAGE." Sage includes "Numpy/SciPy/SymPy/Matplotlib", so we don't have to worry about that chunk of people with respect to our mission statement. 3. There is a lot more to mathematics than just what Magma does and *also* much more to it than just what Numpy/SciPy/SymPy/Matplotlib do. There's a huge amount of interesting things that could be systematically computed with in mathematics that no existing package does yet. -- William > > 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. -- William (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.
