"Nicolas M. Thiery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maybe I didn't express it very clearly: there was *no* interest *at > > all* in the current version of the species program. > > Which really does not come as a surprise to me: only a few persons at SLC are > really doing computations. For the rare ones who do, species are just one > tool among many others. They will only realize its potential the *day* they > will desperately need it directly, because the standard libraries for dealing > with trees, partitions, and friends won't cover their particular need.
Unfortunately, you are only half-right. There was *a lot of interest* in my guessing package. And I showed species to Frederic Chapoton, whom I know to use MuPAD Combinat. So, maybe I should have said, "those people I'd suspect to use species, are not interested". And to me, the reason is not that they are just not interested. Rather, we cannot do yet what would be interesting, namely multivariate species, vectorial species, virtual species. I restate: Frederic expressed interest in computing the inverse of substitution, since currently he is doing this by hand. So, obviously, that would be useful... And Francois Bergeron said, ah well, species. Vectorial species, that would be interesting... Of course, everything we have so far is strictly necessary to do multisort, virtual, vectorial species. But I have the impression that we ought to move on, rather than working on a tutorial or similar "end-user" stuff. Thus, Ralf, again: please check in what you have so far on multisort species. It doesn't matter at all whether it compiles or not, whether it is documented or not, whether it is the design we are going to use. But I'm sure development will be faster if you do. I have some time on the weekend, so I can look at it, ask questions, etc... Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Aldor-combinat-devel mailing list Aldor-combinat-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aldor-combinat-devel
