On Feb 26, 3:01 pm, Maurizio <maurizio.gran...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
> I'm sorry for not being accurate enough to use the correct term for
> what I'm talking about.
>
> Luckily, you're smart enough to understand my needs, so it seems that
> I should really go for this new symbolic package, so that we can get
> something better for symbolic integrals and laplace/inverse laplace
> transform. Do you think we will have great improvements from that? I
> am quite frightened from the fact that such a stable and well
> developed software like maxima still misses this features...
Have you check with the Maxima folks? There is quite a bit of code in
contrib that isn't particularly well integrated. IMHO this is a place
where the Maxima folks could improve Maxima a lot by integrating the
code into the main Maxima codebase, i.e. there is a solver in there
that can handle a lot more systems than the default one and most
people will not look for another solver once the one in default Maxima
does not do what they want it to do.
> how hard would be for SAGE to overcome those?
Well, we have been told repeatedly that Sage cannot be done in general
or then later on when it become clear that we seem to be doing a lot
better than other open source systems (not in the symbolic
manipulation area yet) and in some areas even than the commercial
competition that this kind of development cannot be sustained and we
will implode/self destruct if we do not do $FOO. We just ignore those
people :)
If one starts building basic functionality like pynac other people
will build on top of it and various people have already started to do
so. Last summer we had a project to enhance symbolics in Sage (i.e.
not pynac) and that didn't work out too well for various reasons, but
we are trying again and sooner or later we will get there.
<SNIP>
> Thank you for the very good work
I want to echo RobertWB's point - thanks for using Sage and wanting to
make it better. Scratching your own itch is what it is all about in
Sage :)
> Maurizio
Cheers,
Michael
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