That was a nice article. Three things surprised me about what was otherwise a very uncontroversial article:
1) Networking and grid computing was not deemed applicable to mathematics (I don't disagree, I'm just interested that this was the observation of the author). 2) There was no attempt to highlight features of Sage which might get a user very excited about trying Sage - things Sage can easily do (functionally) which are very difficult to do in other systems. 3) There was no attempt to fill out the corollaries to the observation that the system is currently in a prototyping phase, i.e. few specific deficiencies or shortcomings in Sage were discussed. Though given what the author considers to be the evidence that Sage is in such a phase, perhaps this is not to be expected. I could imagine that numbers 2 and 3 were due to the author not wishing to write a controversial review, or one which would be out-of- date before the article appeared. Number 1 is perhaps due to the perception of mathematics by the Physics community? A safe article - but still a nice read. I'm sure others have thanked the author of the article for writing it. I add my thanks to theirs. Bill. On 25 Mar, 08:37, Dan Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 at 07:30AM +0000, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Here's a review of Sage in the IEEE journal "Computing in Science & > > Engineering": > > > @article{Gray_2008, > > title = {Sage: A New Mathematics Software System}, > > author = {Michael Gray}, > > journal = {Computing in Science & Engineering}, > > year = {2008}, > > month = {Nov.-Dec. }, > > volume = {10}, > > number = {6}, > > pages = {72--75}, > > } > > Here's a link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2008.154 > > (Man, the website for that journal is really annoying. Non-bookmarkable > pages everywhere, the DOI landing page doesn't list the abstract or > bibilographic data...very irritating! I hope the article is good.) > > Dan > > -- > --- Dan Drake <[email protected]> > ----- KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences > ------- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
