... wait until you actually start pushing Mathematica, it gets sluggish on you, produces wrong results and/or crashes, and you receive apathy and blame dodging instead of tech support and bug fixing.
On Sep 14, 3:31 pm, Hamptonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently I started using Mathematica 6 in the computer labs of some > courses I teach, and I cannot help but be impressed. The new dynamic > commands such as Manipulate are very impressive, and are perfect for > teaching. Before seeing how powerful it is, I had hoped to switch > from using mathematica to sage in the fall of 2008. But now I am not > sure I can justisfy that switch or convince my colleagues it would > make sense. (As an aside: assume for the sake of argument that my > department gets mathematica for free, which is true in a certain > bureaucratic sense). > > For some sense of what mathematica can now do, check > out:http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin6/content/DynamicInt.... > I actually think its more impressive in person. > > While I would like to help remedy the gap between sage and mathematica/ > matlab in this respect, I am not sure how it would be done. I am > learning a little about wxPython, but I don't think that would work > through the notebook at all, unless a program was created on the > server for download and byte-compilation by the client. Does anyone > have any ideas? If javascript is a possibility, can someone recommend > a good reference for learning to use it for such complicated > purposes? Or is java an option? > > -Marshall --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
