On 8/11/07, znmeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone considered adding Yacas to Sage?
It comes up every once in a while. Nobody has made any attempt to actually include it in SAGE yet though. What does it do that SAGE doesn't already do? My impression is that it's integration capabilities are less sufficient than Maxima's. Also, my impression is that yacas is meant to be used via an interpreter, rather than as a C++ library. > They just released version > 1.1.0, and have an ambitious road map that seems at least > philosophically compatible with Sage. See > > http://yacas.sf.net/ > > and > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=F0A91E14-1B68-435F-93A9-313ECF8400AF%40xs4all.nl&forum_name=yacas-devel > The email linked there is an interesting read. I guess what I found most striking about it was the lack of discussion or desire for feedback on the description of the direction in which yacas would go. (Maybe there aren't many developers, or the discussion was private?) I would be very happy to be very enthusiastic about yacas, but I'm not based on the very little I know so far. It would be great if somebody could write to me or to this list explaining the point of yacas and how yacas could be helpful for SAGE. Thanks! E.g., does yacas do anything in particular very very very quickly? Does it implement algorithms not in SAGE already? How could it help with SAGE's main goal, which is to be a clean unified well structured mathematical software system that is a viable alternative to Mathematica, Maple, Magma, and MATLAB? -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
