[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 26, 2007 7:33 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 26, 6:22 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2007 6:01 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Dec 25, 2007 3:32 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-26 Thread gvol
>>> I am thinking for a long time already of writing an interpreter, in >>> Python of course, of the Mathematica >>> language: >> Such a language interpreter exists already, called MockMMA, I believe. >> Check with Richard Fateman. > Thanks for the tip, yes, we checked that (see the link from my

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-26 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 26, 6:22 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 26, 2007 6:01 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 25, 2007 3:32 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What are your thoughts - especially from the social point of view - is > > > it

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-26 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 26, 2007 6:01 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 25, 2007 3:32 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What are your thoughts - especially from the social point of view - is > > it a bad or good idea? > > Duh. Of course it would be a very valuable thing to have

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-26 Thread William Stein
On Dec 25, 2007 3:32 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are your thoughts - especially from the social point of view - is > it a bad or good idea? Duh. Of course it would be a very valuable thing to have. This thread shouldn't be about whether to do this but _how_. At a bare

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-25 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 25, 2007 12:04 AM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From a social point of view, I think this would be a great idea. > However, Mathematica contains many functions that have no equivalent > in Sage. You might find yourself re-implementing Mathematica from > scratch. You mean like the l

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-24 Thread David Joyner
Also, the "Legal questions" section of http://omath.org/wiki/Main_Page might be worth reading before you get started. On Dec 24, 2007 7:20 PM, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ondrej > > >I am thinking for a long time already of writing an interpreter, in > >Python of course, of the Mathemati

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-24 Thread root
Ondrej >I am thinking for a long time already of writing an interpreter, in >Python of course, of the Mathematica >language: Such a language interpreter exists already, called MockMMA, I believe. Check with Richard Fateman. Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to

[sage-devel] Re: writing an interpeter for mathematica language

2007-12-24 Thread David
From a social point of view, I think this would be a great idea. However, Mathematica contains many functions that have no equivalent in Sage. You might find yourself re-implementing Mathematica from scratch. -David On Dec 24, 5:15 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am th