[sage-devel] Re: Where are the up-to-date spkgs?

2007-07-11 Thread Brian Granger
> I got swamped by teaching, SAGE Days 4, SIMUW, and... buying a house > this week (!), so I haven't been able to move anything forward. > Fortunately, I have no formal responsibilities for the next two > months, so a lot is likely to happen in the near future. Nice! > My plan is to start workin

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-11 Thread Hamptonio
Well the biggest reason is just inertia: my department has been using mathematica for years, and everyone has a full set of computer labs and handouts and demos already done in mathematica. Why learn a new system and have to port everything over? We don't even directly pay for the license as a d

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-11 Thread William Stein
On 7/11/07, Hamptonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would be willing to chip in some effort on the mathematica.sage > file, although not in the very near future. I plan to begin migrating > my undergraduate courses to sage from mathematica for fall semester > 2008. I hope to convince other fa

[sage-devel] Re: Where are the up-to-date spkgs?

2007-07-11 Thread William Stein
On 7/11/07, Brian Granger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I now have someone here at my company that is going to help maintain > spkgs. We have a number of spkgs that i) SAGE currently doesn't have > and ii) SAGE does have but we have updated or added bug fixes. A > while back there was agreement o

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-11 Thread Hamptonio
I would be willing to chip in some effort on the mathematica.sage file, although not in the very near future. I plan to begin migrating my undergraduate courses to sage from mathematica for fall semester 2008. I hope to convince other faculty do to the same, but it won't be easy. I am mainly in

[sage-devel] Where are the up-to-date spkgs?

2007-07-11 Thread Brian Granger
Hi, I now have someone here at my company that is going to help maintain spkgs. We have a number of spkgs that i) SAGE currently doesn't have and ii) SAGE does have but we have updated or added bug fixes. A while back there was agreement on a new standard format for what the structure of an spk

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-11 Thread William Stein
On 7/11/07, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the init file idea needs to be pushed harder. I already do this and > the > flexibility is absolutely critical to my happiness. I even have my init file > call another file in the current directory so I can have different things >

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-11 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:54:31PM -0700, William Stein wrote: > On 7/10/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't really like the idea of "modules that imitate various > > environments", i.e. I don't think it's possible or desirable for us to > > try to look specifically like any ot

[sage-devel] Re: predefined symbolic variable names

2007-07-11 Thread William Stein
On 7/10/07, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found myself using numerical_approx() instead of RR() because > it is also placed at the end of the line and so is relatively easy to > locate the cursor there and add it. With RR(), one has to wrap the > code in a function and then unwrap