Pretty pictures. Seriously if you look at Mathematica's website you see lots of crazy pictures of crazy graphs and such. The maple website shows a video with 3d models of a robot walking along. Does it matter whether those pictures have any mathematical content, NO. I know that this has been talked about to death, but the area in which sage is most lagging behind proprietary software is graphics. In this are there are lots of things sage cannot do that all other systems can. And graphics have the WOW factor. Additionally many people seem to only use mathematica, maple or matlab as primarily visualization tools.
I also like the idea of finding people in other areas/departments that use one of the three ms and trying to convert them or at least find what aspect of sage are not satisfactory for them as a replacement. Josh On Aug 7, 7:31 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > On Aug 8, 4:25 am, "Alec Mihailovs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> Being a Windows user, I can't agree less. > > > > ??? In my reading of English this sounds like you strongly disagree. :-( > > > Yes, my English is not that great. Certainly I meant "strongly agree" :-) > > > > I am not sure if this is necessary but apparently Python can be built > > > under MSYS/MinGW (I haven't tried this). See: > > > I meant that the standard Windows Python available from python.org was built > > using Visual Studio 2005. I tried once to build it with Visual C++ Express > > 2005 (that is free as beer), and it worked fine, too. > > > In general, I think that the best way for using Sage in Windows would be not > > to include such things as Python, Singular, GAP etc., but assume that users > > already have them, or are able to install them themselves - that would make > > porting much easier. > > > Alec > > The compartmentilazation of SAGE has been suggested many times before, > but as William has stated many times: This makes testing and debugging > infinitely more diffcult. It is also extreme likely that if you use > even minor different versions of certain packages like Maxima things > no longer work properly. > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
