[sage-devel] Re: Suggestion for a map showing where Sage is taught.

2009-11-23 Thread Pablo Angulo
Is there no way to have users of the wiki add their universities themselves? I've seen collaborative maps elsewhere. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options,

[sage-devel] Re: Suggestion for a map showing where Sage is taught.

2009-11-23 Thread Harald Schilly
On Nov 23, 9:33 am, Pablo Angulo pablo.ang...@uam.es wrote: Is there no way to have users of the wiki add their universities themselves? I've seen collaborative maps elsewhere. Well, what do you mean by users of the wiki. Nearly all of the entries on that wiki page are by me. I found them by

[sage-devel] Another satisfied user we didn't know about

2009-11-23 Thread kcrisman
Good morning sage-devel, This from a user I don't think we were previously aware of: I was planning to begin conversion of my Mathematica materials to Sage over the holiday break, so your workshop comes at an opportune time. I'll also point out heavy interest and lots of support from the

[sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-23 Thread Jason Grout
Florent Hivert wrote: Hi there, Regarding deprecation, we already hashed this out in a previous thread quite some time ago. * Use the official deprecation(...) function when deprecating a function. * We can tell precisely what is deprecated and when by simply looking at the

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread rjf
From the proposal ... and which has sophisti- cated interfaces to nearly all other mathematics software, including Mathematica, Maple, MATLAB and Magma. ... Maxima just gets no respect. :) Most of the facilities mentioned are already in Maxima. And why is Cython much more than a Python to C

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:28 AM, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: From the proposal ... and which has sophisti- cated interfaces to nearly all other mathematics software, including Mathematica, Maple, MATLAB and Magma. ... Maxima just gets no respect. :) Most of the facilities mentioned are

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Simon King
On Nov 23, 4:38 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:28 AM, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: From the proposal ... and which has sophisti- cated interfaces to nearly all other mathematics software, including Mathematica, Maple, MATLAB and Magma. ... Maxima

Re: [sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-23 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi Jason Speaking about deprecation, I posted a patch #7515 which does two things: 1 - Add an option called ``version`` do deprecation where you can put the information on since which version of sage this thing was deprecated: sage: def bar(): ...

Re: [sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-23 Thread Florent Hivert
Speaking about deprecation, I posted a patch #7515 which does two things: 1 - Add an option called ``version`` do deprecation where you can put the information on since which version of sage this thing was deprecated:        sage: def bar():        ...    

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Simon King simon.k...@nuigalway.ie wrote: On Nov 23, 4:38 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:28 AM, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: From the proposal ... and which has sophisti- cated interfaces to nearly all other mathematics

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread John H Palmieri
On Nov 23, 8:28 am, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: From the proposal [snip] And why is Cython much more than a Python to C translator?  (This is not sarcasm. I honestly have no idea that it was more. I thought it was, if anything, less.) Look at the section on Cython and Numerical Computation

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread John H Palmieri
On Nov 23, 9:55 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Simon King simon.k...@nuigalway.ie wrote:  Sage provides the capabilities of a wide range of open source mathematical and non-mathematical software, such as GAP, JMol, Maxima, Numpy, Pari/GP, R,

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Jaap Spies
rjf wrote: From the proposal and which has sophisti- cated interfaces to nearly all other mathematics software, including Mathematica, Maple, MATLAB and Magma. ... Maxima just gets no respect. :) Most of the facilities mentioned are already in Maxima. [...] You are so

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread kcrisman
You are so funny. You remind me of the sour old men in the public of the Muppet show. Complaining all the time, but not looking what's really happening. Statler and Waldorf. Also, unless we predict the immediate demise of Sage's integration, (hopefully soon) summation (review this please!),

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Simon King
Hi William! On 23 Nov., 18:55, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Maxima started in the 1960s, whereas Singular, Pari, GAP are from the 1990s, right?   Venerable = accorded a great deal of respect, esp. because of age My impression was that the word venerable (used *twice* in the

[sage-devel] Re: patch in trac # 4644 not in sage-4.2.1 ???

2009-11-23 Thread Mariah
Minh, The patch may have been merged into sage-4.1.2. But it is NOT in sage-4.2.1. Just do (in sage-4.2.1) ./sage -sh. I expect to see (at the end) * /home/mariah/sage/sage-4.2.1-x86_64-Linux-core2-fc sage subshell$ * Yet what I see is just * Bypassing shell configuration files

[sage-devel] Re: patch in trac # 4644 not in sage-4.2.1 ???

2009-11-23 Thread John H Palmieri
On Nov 23, 11:56 am, Mariah mariah.le...@gmail.com wrote: Minh, The patch may have been merged into sage-4.1.2. But it is NOT in sage-4.2.1. Just do (in sage-4.2.1) ./sage -sh. I expect to see (at the end) * /home/mariah/sage/sage-4.2.1-x86_64-Linux-core2-fc sage subshell$ *

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread John H Palmieri
On Nov 23, 11:18 am, Simon King simon.k...@nuigalway.ie wrote: Hi William! On 23 Nov., 18:55, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Maxima started in the 1960s, whereas Singular, Pari, GAP are from the 1990s, right?   Venerable = accorded a great deal of respect, esp. because of

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:27 PM, John H Palmieri jhpalmier...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 23, 11:18 am, Simon King simon.k...@nuigalway.ie wrote: Hi William! On 23 Nov., 18:55, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Maxima started in the 1960s, whereas Singular, Pari, GAP are from the

Re: [sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-23 Thread Florent Hivert
Of course, when writing code, we have no idea what date the next release would be, and sometimes are mistaken about the release that the patch will be included in as well. How should we take care of this patch-updating problem? I've been lazy to raise this problem on the lists.

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread rjf
On Nov 23, 8:38 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:28 AM, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: From the proposal ... and which has sophisti- cated interfaces to nearly all other mathematics software, including Mathematica, Maple, MATLAB and Magma. ...

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread rjf
Definition of venerable: 1. Commanding respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position. 2. Worthy of reverence, especially by religious or historical association. For the non-native English speakers (and maybe others) in the group, it may be useful to point out that labeling

[sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-23 Thread Jason Grout
Florent Hivert wrote: Of course, when writing code, we have no idea what date the next release would be, and sometimes are mistaken about the release that the patch will be included in as well. How should we take care of this patch-updating problem? I've been lazy to raise this problem on

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread mark mcclure
On Nov 23, 3:30 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That is true.  In fact, I hope in the proposal to not insult or snub non-free commercial software either. But William, just two days ago on sage-support you wrote: Let's put Mathworks out of business.

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Jaap Spies
mark mcclure wrote: On Nov 23, 3:30 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That is true. In fact, I hope in the proposal to not insult or snub non-free commercial software either. But William, just two days ago on sage-support you wrote: Let's put Mathworks out of business.

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:04:25PM -0800, rjf wrote: Actually, while Maxima includes library access to Fortran methods, it is far inferior to what could be done in numeric integration, as demonstrated by recent Mathematica versions. You would hardly get a hint that 75% of the

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Jason Grout
mark mcclure wrote: On Nov 23, 3:30 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That is true. In fact, I hope in the proposal to not insult or snub non-free commercial software either. But William, just two days ago on sage-support you wrote: Let's put Mathworks out of business.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Tim Daly
Jaap Spies wrote: mark mcclure wrote: On Nov 23, 3:30 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That is true. In fact, I hope in the proposal to not insult or snub non-free commercial software either. But William, just two days ago on sage-support you wrote: Let's put

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Martin Rubey
Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl writes: mark mcclure wrote: On Nov 23, 3:30 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That is true. In fact, I hope in the proposal to not insult or snub non-free commercial software either. But William, just two days ago on sage-support you wrote: Let's put

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:04 PM, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: That's helpful.  Forgive me for asking for information.  I see, somewhat later, that this has to do with adding type declarations. Just the ticket.  To me is suggests that Python is inappropriate for numerical work -- for which C is

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Nick Alexander
It's time for this thread to move to sage-flame. Please no more messages on sage-devel. Nick -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Jaap Spies
Martin Rubey wrote: Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl writes: mark mcclure wrote: On Nov 23, 3:30 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That is true. In fact, I hope in the proposal to not insult or snub non-free commercial software either. But William, just two days ago on sage-support

Re: [sage-devel] Re: deprecation policy

2009-11-23 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 23, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Jason Grout wrote: Florent Hivert wrote: Of course, when writing code, we have no idea what date the next release would be, and sometimes are mistaken about the release that the patch will be included in as well. How should we take care of this

Re: [sage-devel] Re: patch in trac # 4644 not in sage-4.2.1 ???

2009-11-23 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 23, 2009, at 12:05 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: On Nov 23, 11:56 am, Mariah mariah.le...@gmail.com wrote: Minh, The patch may have been merged into sage-4.1.2. But it is NOT in sage-4.2.1. Just do (in sage-4.2.1) ./sage -sh. I expect to see (at the end) *

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread mark mcclure
On Nov 23, 4:56 pm, Martin Rubey martin.ru...@math.uni-hannover.de wrote: Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl writes: Ever heard of the word humor? Even without a smiley this is possible in a message. I, as a german speaking, can see no humor in that post you link to.   I guess I didn't either.

[sage-devel] Sage Website Stats Oct 23 - Nov 22 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Harald Schilly
Here are some statistics for the Sage website. Oct and Nov are probably the best months for the Sage website. These numbers are for 2009, oct 23rd to nov 22nd. Visits: 89,495 Visits (session of several pageviews) 253,716 Pageviews 6,271 (tracked) downloads By Country 1%: 1. United States

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Website Stats Oct 23 - Nov 22 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Jaap Spies
Harald Schilly wrote: Here are some statistics for the Sage website. Oct and Nov are probably the best months for the Sage website. These numbers are for 2009, oct 23rd to nov 22nd. Nice! Thank you for doing this. Jaap -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread rjf
On Nov 23, 1:33 pm, Alex Ghitza aghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:04:25PM -0800, rjf wrote: Actually, while Maxima includes library access to Fortran methods, it is far inferior to what could be done in numeric integration, as demonstrated by recent Mathematica

[sage-devel] Re: Another satisfied user we didn't know about

2009-11-23 Thread Harald Schilly
On Nov 23, 2:20 pm, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder how many silent users there are out there... My latest entry (from yesterday) on the testimonial page: Sage brought me back to using linux, perhaps permanently this time. I only use windows for games these days. I actually haven't

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Website Stats Oct 23 - Nov 22 2009

2009-11-23 Thread Harald Schilly
On Nov 24, 12:07 am, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: Nice! Thank you for doing this. No problem, stats were long overdue ... if there are any specific questions about a country, some additional numbers or data like which IE browser is used most often? ... just ask me ;) One thing I didn't

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread rjf
Is the topic of how should a Sage proposal be written so that it is funded by NSF really something to be relegated to sage-flame? I don't know how many other readers here have (repeatedly) served as NSF reviewers or panelists evaluating proposals. Based on my contributions to the writing of this

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: Is the topic of how should a Sage proposal be written so that it is funded by NSF really something to be relegated to sage-flame? I don't know how many other readers here  have (repeatedly) served as NSF reviewers or panelists

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:04 PM, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: venerable Maxima is mentioned once, suggesting that the only thing it can do is symbolic integration and numeric integration. Actually, while Maxima includes library access to Fortran methods, it is far inferior to what could be

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread rjf
On Nov 23, 3:49 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:04 PM,rjffate...@gmail.com wrote: venerable Maxima is mentioned once, suggesting that the only thing it can do is symbolic integration and numeric integration. Actually, while Maxima includes library

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Simon King
Hi All! On 24 Nov., 01:15, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: [...] It may be worthwhile pondering Tim's comment...   NSF will not fund software development that competes with    existing commercial software. Indeed, that's irritating. What exactly does NSF mean? Do they mean (1) no fund for

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread kcrisman
It may be worthwhile pondering Tim's comment...   NSF will not fund software development that competes with    existing commercial software. Indeed, that's irritating. What exactly does NSF mean? Do they mean (1) no fund for software that competes economically with existing commercial

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:15 PM, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 23, 3:49 pm, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:04 PM,rjffate...@gmail.com wrote: venerable Maxima is mentioned once, suggesting that the only thing it can do is symbolic integration and

[sage-devel] Sage and commercial software

2009-11-23 Thread mhampton
I thought that Mark McClure's post on another thread raised some interesting issues, and that it was worth responding to, but it was so tangential that it deserves a seperate thread: But William, just two days ago on sage-support you wrote: Let's put Mathworks out of business.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Tim Daly
Is there a plan for what happens if funding is not approved? Do the servers continue? Are the students reassigned? Do the Sage days continue? Does the code move to sourceforge or github? Does this become a free-time only, non-academic activity? Once Sage becomes a non-academic free and open

Re: [sage-devel] Sage and commercial software

2009-11-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
mhampton wrote: I thought that Mark McClure's post on another thread raised some interesting issues, and that it was worth responding to, but it was so tangential that it deserves a seperate thread: But William, just two days ago on sage-support you wrote: Let's put Mathworks out of

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread William Stein
Hi Tim, Thanks for airing your concerns and worries. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tim Daly d...@axiom-developer.org wrote: Is there a plan for what happens if funding is not approved? Yes. Do the servers continue? I'm not asking for funding for servers.The actual hardware is owned

Re: [sage-devel] Sage and commercial software

2009-11-23 Thread Martin Rubey
Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net writes: I find it hard to believe Sage will not have a negative impact on the sales of Mathematica, but I certainly hope Sage does not put Wolfram Research out of business. I very much doubt it will either. I am with your hope (how to say this

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-23 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Tim Daly wrote: Is there a plan for what happens if funding is not approved? Do the servers continue? Yes. Are the students reassigned? There aren't any students being funded by unconfirmed funding, and the grant isn't about funding students either. Do the

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.alpha0 released!

2009-11-23 Thread David M. Monarres
OSX 10.6.2 on Intel with Xcode 3.21: -- The following tests failed: sage -t devel/sage/doc/en/a_tour_of_sage/index.rst sage -t devel/sage/doc/en/bordeaux_2008/introduction.rst sage -t

[sage-devel] Re: patch in trac # 4644 not in sage-4.2.1 ???

2009-11-23 Thread Georg S. Weber
For what it's worth, this is from Sage-4.3.alpha0 (when I do ./sage -sh): snip Starting subshell with Sage environment variables set. Be sure to exit when you are done and do not do anything with other copies of Sage! Bypassing shell configuration files ...