Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Nathann Cohen wrote: >> NetworkX is a standard package in Sage, so everything in NetworkX is in Sage. > > Sigh Moreover, what matters to me is the open source ecosystem, not just Sage. My goal is (as it has been for a decade) to make the open source ecosyst

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-15 Thread Nathann Cohen
> NetworkX is a standard package in Sage, so everything in NetworkX is in Sage. Sigh Nathann -- 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 an email to sage-devel+unsu

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Nathann Cohen wrote: >> combinatorial geometry. Unfortunately I don't know enough about graph theory >> to say how Sage compares with any other CAS, but I would think we compare >> quite well. Nathann? > > I've got no idea. I never used the graph theory library of

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-15 Thread Stefan
On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 1:43:02 AM UTC-6, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 1:11:18 AM UTC+1, William wrote: >> >> Combinatorics is definitely the strongest part of Sage. > > > Old school combinatorics perhaps. But see > http://unsexy-science.blogspot.de/2015/10/survey

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-15 Thread Nathann Cohen
Yo, > combinatorial geometry. Unfortunately I don't know enough about graph theory > to say how Sage compares with any other CAS, but I would think we compare > quite well. Nathann? I've got no idea. I never used the graph theory library of any other CAS, and the independent graph libraries I met

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-15 Thread Travis Scrimshaw
> > Combinatorics is definitely the strongest part of Sage. > > > Old school combinatorics perhaps. But see > http://unsexy-science.blogspot.de/2015/10/survey-sage-and-enumerative.html > We also have strong support for algebraic combinatorics with symmetric functions and its well-known/studied g

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-15 Thread Thierry Dumont
Le 15/02/2016 08:27, Daniel Krenn a écrit : > On 2016-02-15 06:25, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, William Stein wrote: >> Shall we teach Python in the process of teaching Sage? > > At least, I do in my first year's course. > > D > And one argument for teaching Sage at undergraduat

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread Ralf Stephan
On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 1:11:18 AM UTC+1, William wrote: > > Combinatorics is definitely the strongest part of Sage. Old school combinatorics perhaps. But see http://unsexy-science.blogspot.de/2015/10/survey-sage-and-enumerative.html -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread Daniel Krenn
On 2016-02-15 06:25, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, William Stein wrote: > Shall we teach Python in the process of teaching Sage? At least, I do in my first year's course. D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubs

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread Daniel Krenn
On 2016-02-15 07:56, Nathann Cohen wrote: > -> We write to the guys who complain about the software and ask > them to give us more concrete examples, so that we learn and fix them. > The first one, the guy who mentions bad doc and useless functions > surely has some stories to tell.. > > If som

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread Nathann Cohen
> There's a big reddit discussion in which a lot of people say > not-so-nice things about Sage: > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/45q7j1/sagemath_open_source_is_now_ready_to_compete_with/ What do you think about doing something smart? -> We write to the guys who complain about t

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, William Stein wrote: There's a big reddit discussion in which a lot of people say not-so-nice things about Sage: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/45q7j1/sagemath_open_source_is_now_ready_to_compete_with/ Shall we teach Python in the process of teaching Sage? It sh

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > > On Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 5:32:34 PM UTC-6, William wrote: >> >> There's a big reddit discussion in which a lot of people say >> not-so-nice things about Sage: >> >> >> https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/45q7j1/sagemath_open