On Dec 12, 2007 9:05 PM, Thomas : > Bill, > I had to learn C in graduate school as a medicinal chemist. But I > didn't do any programming since then (1985!). Then several years back > I had the responsibility to administer a couple of unix machines and > decided that I would learn a "scripting" language. It came down to > Perl or Python. ... I chose Perl. It's been great for me: my duties > include automating several "data munging" tasks for my service lab, > CGI programming for my Core Facility website, and Systems > Administration and bioperl for bioinformatics. So it was a good fit. > I looked on CPAN, the source for perl modules, for a Perl module that > would provide a perlish interface to SAGE. There are over 500 > modules, but so far no interface to SAGE. Though Steffen Müller has > written a number of extensions for symbolic numerical analysis and > Ray Zimmerman has written a perl interface for Matlab. The closest > thing I found was Math::Gap. I don't think I have time to learn > Python.
The big bold quote at the top of python.org says: "Python ... offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Am I out of luck with SAGE? Unfortunately, if you don't have the time to learn Python, then probably Sage will not be very useful to you. > thanks again for your feedback. > Tom You're welcome. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
