On 28 September 2015 at 19:37, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1. Magma is also an Ma. Magma's incredibly good at pure mathematics. > You seem to be leaving out Magma above. >
I admit I know basically nothing about Magma (I did not know it even existed before joining this list :). > 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. > I can install the NSPM stack on any modern platform (Windows included) with pip (or my distro's package manger, if I am on linux) in probably less than 5 minutes with a reasonable internet connection. I don't have to worry about sizeable downloads, virtual machines, containers, emulation layers a-la cygwin, installing a separate compiler toolchain/python version/set of libraries, or anything of the sort. It is true that you can use the NSPM stack from SAGE, but what are the key advantages of doing so? It is a honest question, maybe there's something I am overlooking. 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. > Yes, nobody has the monopoly on what "mathematics on a computer" means :) My comment was merely a marketing/strategic one: I think there exists a disconnect between the mission statement and what SAGE actually is (and maybe what the SAGE community wants it to be). 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.
