On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Simon King <simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote: > Dear William, > > On 21 Nov., 10:19, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] >> I would say that Enthought was a real pioneer in this feature with >> their "Traits" system long, long before either Mathematica or Sage had >> this capability. So maybe the chronology is: >> >> 2002 (??): Enthought traites, which makes it really easy to make >> interactive gui's to manipulate data/python code -- this is a core >> (but open source) technology that Enthought developed as part of their >> business model. >> >> 2006 (?): Mathematica's Manipulate is introduced, I think in >> Mathematica 6. It's declared by Wolfram to be the most important >> innovation since the wheel. >> >> 2007: We had a joint Sage days at Enthought, in which there were >> several excellent talks by Enthought'ers about how Traits works and >> what it is. Seeing this, I coded with little sleep for a week, and >> wrote Sage's @interact. This has been subsequently polished by Igor >> Tolkov, Jason Grout, and many other people. > > Thank you for the clarification! > > But then I wonder why Ram, the original poster, referred to > Mathematica's manipulate as "Mathematica's interact". Can you tell us > why?
I can't. > > If this were all based on manipulations of Wolfram (e.g., Mathematica > occasionally referring to its feature as "interact" until the whole > world believes they came up with that name, and Wolfram not giving > credits to Enthought), then I would really fear that the telephone > story repeats (e.g. Bell using Meucci's notes and studying Reis' > device without crediting them, and the word "telephone" is due to > Reis). > > There was a question in the Sage Survey about what to do with $10^6. I > really think those brand name / trademark / patent / ... things would > be worth the money! I don't really care. I just want everybody to have first rate mathematics software that satisfies their needs. I'm against software patents, since I do *not* think they contribute to this goal, and in fact do quite the opposite. William -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
