On 30 Sep 2015 21:51, "Bill Hart" <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I don't see why would you make people use Sage for that, just so you can get the Sage usage figures up, instead of writing that as a simple Python package. >
But if Sage could do a lot of the things related to this, which RF engineers can do with the MATLAB toolbox, then Sage would start becoming a viable alternative to MATLAB for engineers working in this field. At the moment, Sage is nowhere near a viable alternative, and I don't think it will in my lifetime (I'm 51), if ever. If you look at Mathematica for example, it has evolved a lot, to add functionality in areas far removed from version 1.0. Apparently the biggest user base is actually the financial sector - or at least was a few years ago. (This possibly hints at another source of funding for Sage - the financial sector. ) I think to be honest, there's a good argument for just re-writing the Sage "Mission Statement", since realistically the mission has zero chance of ever being reached, or even approached fairly closely. I don't think you could come up with any very objective metrics, but I believe the gap between Mathematica and Sage is widening, as it the gap between Sage and MATLAB. If I am honest, I think the *only* way Sage would ever be a viable alternative to Mathematica for a lot of users would be if Wolfram Research stopped development of the program,. either because they went bust, or decided it was not commercially viable, so stopped development of it voluntarily. The same argument would apply to MATLAB with Mathworks. Dave -- 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.
