>From the proposal
... and which has sophisti- cated interfaces to nearly all other mathematics software, including Mathematica, Maple, MATLAB and Magma. ... Maxima just gets no respect. :) Most of the facilities mentioned are already in Maxima. And why is Cython much more than a Python to C translator? (This is not sarcasm. I honestly have no idea that it was more. I thought it was, if anything, less.) "venerable" Maxima is mentioned once, suggesting that the only thing it can do is symbolic integration and numeric integration. Actually, while Maxima includes library access to Fortran methods, it is far inferior to what could be done in numeric integration, as demonstrated by recent Mathematica versions. You would hardly get a hint that 75% of the sage-support messages are about Maxima. Maybe what is needed is a Fortran to Python translator. In the context of computational mathematics, it sounds more interesting than "NSF: please send us $31,000 so our student Herman Bartleby can spend 5 years of his life exploring the Klotacherry variant of the Murtelbaskov-Lnikcjly conjecture. We need $1,000 for a computer, and $30,000 more so Bartleby can continue to rent his garret and buy the thin gruel he uses as the basis for his diet. " I think that if NSF sent the proposal over to computer science and engineering, it might not get a great reception, but it is hard to predict such things. RJF -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
