On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Tim Lahey wrote: > On 8/8/07, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.) undergrads taking calculus classes or people who use a CAS from time > > to time only. If SAGE is to reach the 10.000 user mark it is probably > > this group which makes up the big numbers. Many people on this list seem > > to assume so too, because they suggested non-mathemtical means to > > increase the number of users. > > I guess it depends on what you mean from time to time. I use Maple quite a > bit (pretty close to daily), and I presented software I wrote to > symbolically derive > mass and stiffness matrices from first principles for finite element > analysis at > Maple's user conference in 2005. I've been trying to do nearly all my > symbolic mathematics for my PhD research directly in Maple and I've > been using > MATLAB for my numerics. However, license restrictions have been a pain > for MATLAB so I've been looking at moving away from both Maple and > MATLAB and into SAGE since I'm somewhat familiar with both Python and > SciPy. Unfortunately, learning to use SAGE for symbolic calculations has > been quite a bit more difficult than learning Maple. With limited time > (since I have to do my > research) it appears that I'll be using SAGE for numerical calculations at > most (at least for the foreseeable future).
Hi Tim, I wasn't trying to say that everybody using Calculus is not a power-user or developer. My point is that if we are after 10.000th of users, then casual users are the ones we are after, simply because I doubt that there are so many power-users/developers out there. Presenting working code to a conference isn't something 10.000 people are going to do (?) Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
