"Usually about 30 people get patches accepting into SAGE every month"
s/accepting/accepted On Aug 17, 10:20 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > New version here: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/lj/talk/talk.pdfhttp://sage.math.washington.edu/lj/talk/demo.txt > > On 8/17/07, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Nice job. You could list somewhere the areas where SAGE is better than > > anything else: > > (1) modular forms (functionality), (2) polynomial multiplication, (3) > > well-designed > > development environment, (4) SciPy for number crunching (some people > > on the SciPy list, > > for example, argue that SciPy is better than Matlab), SAGE is > > constantly improving > > through a relatively large number of developers. So you have a number of the > > best components integrated together, and no SAGE component is "weak", > > even though it may not (yet) be the fastest in the world. > > > On 8/17/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just wrote slides for a 20-minute talk on SAGE I'm giving tomorrow > > > morning. > > > The target audience is vastly different from that of the last talk I > > > gave (at CECM). > > > Imagine an audience that could care less about cost, and just wants the > > > best > > > possible tools for the job. Any notions of cost, "open source > > > idealism", and > > > even proof are irrelevant to the target audience of this talk. Please > > > let me know > > > if you have any comments. > > > > -- > > > William Stein > > > Associate Professor of Mathematics > > > University of Washington > > >http://www.williamstein.org > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
