On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Alex Ghitza <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Jason Grout <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> [email protected] wrote:
>> > Carl
>> >
>> > Mathematica seems to have been successful with this approach. I'm
>> > curious what were the reasons for its disapproval. Perhaps it was
>> > feared it was error prone?
>>
>>
>> Along with the other reasons people are giving, it may be helpful to
>> remember that it is may be less error-prone in MMA. For example,
>> parentheses in Sage can denote function calling as well as grouping,
>> while they only denote grouping in MMA. With implicit multiplication,
>> func (x) and func(x) are both valid in Sage, but have different
>> meanings. In MMA, they both are multiplication, like you'd expect from
>> math.
>
> ??? so you're saying that in Mathematica sin(x) means sin times x? That's
> not what I'd expect from math...
>
> I must be misreading what you wrote.
>
> Alex
>
OMFG!
wst...@sage:~$ sage
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| Sage Version 3.3, Release Date: 2009-02-21 |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
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sage: mathematica('sin(x)')
sin*x
sage: !math
Mathematica 6.0 for Linux x86 (64-bit)
Copyright 1988-2007 Wolfram Research, Inc.
In[1]:= sin(x)
Out[1]= sin x
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