2009/7/24 Minh Nguyen <[email protected]>: > The former head of school (the school that was running the course) was > well aware of limitations of mathematics software systems (or computer > algebra system, if you like). But I cannot recall that the course > lecturer talked about downsides of proprietary systems or even maths > software. I *did not* attend any of the lectures.
I can't recall this issue ever being pointed out to me at uni. I never mentioned it to students when I run a short course on Mathematica. Perhaps the next time a book is written on Sage, this point should be made more. The best argument I can think of to substantiate my claim of Mathematica not being used much in industry is the lack of jobs requiring Mathematica skills. IMHO, that's a pretty convincing argument for not getting sucked into using it. BTW, some time back I started to write a comparison of using Sage vs Mathematica. I never got around to finishing it, but read it here if you wish. http://www.g8wrb.org/tmp/sage_ideas/compare/Mathematica/ Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
