On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Tim Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm getting the point in the Debianization of Sage that I'm primarily > working on the package for Sage itself (rather than its dependencies). > Below is my current draft description for the Debian Sage package > (i.e. > the stuff that would show up when you run 'apt-cache show sagemath'). > Any comments would be appreciated. > > (I've noticed that SAGE has been replaced with Sage on the website, > and am > following that change in the package description).
Yes, we officially changed the name from SAGE (the acronym) to Sage (the word) I think about 8 months ago. > -Tim Abbott > > Package: sagemath > Priority: optional > Section: math > ... > Description: Computer algebra system written in Python > Sage is a computer algebra system with support for a wide range of I do not like to call Sage a "computer algebra" system. I prefer to call it "mathematical software". I don't like the term "computer algebra" since it suggests sage is only for "computer *algebra*", whereas Sage is for much more than just algebra. > mathematics, including algebra, calculus, elementary to very advanced > number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative > algebra, > group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, and exact linear algebra. > . > Sage integrates several dozen mathematical software packages, making > it > possible to combine the best algorithms from several different > packages > together in a single Sage program. > . > Much of the Sage core and the Sage interfaces are implemented in > Cython, > helping Sage avoid the usual performance problems associated with > Python. > . > Sage has a friendly command-line interface based on iPython and a > web-based notebook interface which can run locally or connect to a > remote > Sage server over the network. I really really like the rest of this description. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
