[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-20 Thread Ondrej Certik
> > (a) eternal peace and prosperity for mankind > > (b) infinite personal power and wealth > > (c) having the people responsible for designing Fortran run time > > libraries and linker modes/modules beamed into space > > > > I would choose (c) without having to think about it. > > I don't know

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-15 Thread Fernando Perez
On Dec 13, 2007 1:34 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but I will refrain myself from doing so. I used to joke, that if I > were given the choice between > > (a) eternal peace and prosperity for mankind > (b) infinite personal power and wealth > (c) having the people responsible for de

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-13 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 13, 9:06 am, "Fernando Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2007 12:51 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] Hello, > > > So basically, at no point were there any real non-documented bugs > > or problems with numpy or scipy that we fixed. It was more that > >

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-13 Thread Fernando Perez
On Dec 13, 2007 12:51 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > So basically, at no point were there any real non-documented bugs > or problems with numpy or scipy that we fixed. It was more that > installing those libraries and all they depend on *from scratch* > in the context of t

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 11:05 PM, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (4) At some point though, I had to chose the numerical component for > > sage, since in > > fact my more recent research interests had broadened > > to more numerical things, and those of a lot of new Sage users (the > > numb

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 4:27 PM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William, > > I like this. It could be a good start for a blog! OK, hint taken! I've made this blog for Sage-related stuff, and made my first post based on that email: http://sagemath.blogspot.com/ > > Jaap > > > > > William S

[sage-devel] Re: Sage vs Octave

2007-12-12 Thread William Stein
On Dec 12, 2007 3:22 PM, Thomas Keller <> wrote: > Hi, > I just saw the Dr. Dobb's article on SAGE. I will check it out, but I was > wondering if you've looked at Octave? > Why not join up with that team? Here's a list of reasons that Sage and Octave are and will remain to very different project