Re: [sage-flame] Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-04-11 Thread Bill Hart
On Friday, 3 April 2015 10:31:31 UTC+2, bluescarni wrote: > > Hello Bill, > > On 2 April 2015 at 18:06, Bill Hart > wrote: >> >> We are very deliberately targeting the leading/bleeding edge because >> there is just so much amazing, useful stuff in the works that we really >> can't ignore (dram

Re: [sage-flame] Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-04-03 Thread Francesco Biscani
Hello Bill, On 2 April 2015 at 18:06, Bill Hart wrote: > > We are very deliberately targeting the leading/bleeding edge because there > is just so much amazing, useful stuff in the works that we really can't > ignore (dramatically improved gc, much better C struct support, staged > functions, C++

Re: [sage-flame] Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-04-02 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Bill Hart wrote: > > > On 2 April 2015 at 17:31, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Bill Hart >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 31 March 2015 at 15:18, William Stein wrote: >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> All that said, Julia seems really exciting

Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-04-02 Thread rjf
> > The discussion about programming languages for X is largely a rehash of discussions that are inherently non-convergent . The language syntax and semantics tends to be pointless from a particular advanced standpoint, which is that if you want to design a language to do some task T, you ca

Re: [sage-flame] Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-04-02 Thread Bill Hart
On 2 April 2015 at 17:31, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Bill Hart > wrote: > > > > > > On 31 March 2015 at 15:18, William Stein wrote: > > > > > >> > >> > >> All that said, Julia seems really exciting. If people write major > >> packages of functionality in Julia tha

Re: [sage-flame] Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-04-02 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Bill Hart wrote: > > > On 31 March 2015 at 15:18, William Stein wrote: > > >> >> >> All that said, Julia seems really exciting. If people write major >> packages of functionality in Julia that people doing mathematics >> really need, and is better than what is a

Re: [sage-flame] Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-04-02 Thread Bill Hart
On 31 March 2015 at 15:18, William Stein wrote: > > > All that said, Julia seems really exciting. If people write major > packages of functionality in Julia that people doing mathematics > really need, and is better than what is already in Sage, we could > consider adding Julia to Sage... S

Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-04-01 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 06:18:22AM -0700, William Stein wrote: >> This sort of careful strategic iterative development, which easily >> parallelizes to a large number of people and gets big projects (GAP, >> Singular, PARI) to work togethe

Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-04-01 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 06:18:22AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > This sort of careful strategic iterative development, which easily > parallelizes to a large number of people and gets big projects (GAP, > Singular, PARI) to work together, rather than compete, is not > amateuristic -- it's very sens

Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-04-01 Thread Pierre
>Anyways, "somewhat limited" is an understatement. To be fair, the french "financement est pour le moins limité" means something like "funding is limited, to say the least". Don't trust google ! :-) pierre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-de

Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-03-31 Thread William Stein
On Tuesday, March 31, 2015, Volker Braun wrote: > On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 6:10:55 PM UTC+2, William wrote: >> >> have written way more Javascript (actually CoffeeScript) than Python >> during the last two years. > > > In other words you like Javascript so much that you'd rather write in a >

Re: [sage-flame] Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-03-31 Thread Volker Braun
On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 6:10:55 PM UTC+2, William wrote: > > have written way more Javascript (actually CoffeeScript) than Python > during the last two years. In other words you like Javascript so much that you'd rather write in a different language and transpile it. Sounds like you like

Re: [sage-flame] Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-03-31 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:24 AM, rjf wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 6:19:03 AM UTC-7, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Jean-Pierre Flori >> wrote: >> > Let's replace Python by Julia :p >> > >> > >> > http://lavieestmaloptimisee.blogspot.fr/2015/03/les-inform

Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-03-31 Thread Volker Braun
On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 4:25:02 PM UTC+2, rjf wrote: > > How do you feel about javascript > Aww c'mon, bashing Javascript is like shooting fish in a barrel. Its as if a couple of big corporations, which hate each other's guts, incrementally added stuff to a poorly designed language. -- Y

Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-03-31 Thread rjf
On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 6:19:03 AM UTC-7, William Stein wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Jean-Pierre Flori > wrote: > > Let's replace Python by Julia :p > > > > > http://lavieestmaloptimisee.blogspot.fr/2015/03/les-informaticiens-meprisent.html?view=classic > > > Oops, Ap

Re: [sage-devel] For french readers

2015-03-31 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > Let's replace Python by Julia :p > > http://lavieestmaloptimisee.blogspot.fr/2015/03/les-informaticiens-meprisent.html?view=classic Oops, April 1 isn't until tomorrow [1] ?! [1] http://sage-devel.narkive.com/p7EcpMPd/python-and-lisp

[sage-devel] For french readers

2015-03-31 Thread Jean-Pierre Flori
Let's replace Python by Julia :p http://lavieestmaloptimisee.blogspot.fr/2015/03/les-informaticiens-meprisent.html?view=classic -- 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