Hi Sage-Devel,
Some amusing quotes from the GiNaC page:
http://www.ginac.de/People.html (Note that GiNaC is a C++ library
that is at the core of Sage's symbolic manipulation system.)
* Richard J. Fateman must be mentioned for his stimulating scepticism
("Maybe what should be done is [...] to do it with experts instead of
physicists-who-can-write-programs.") at the early days of the GiNaC
project, for encouragment ("If you are willing to believe that the
cost of writing the code is justified by the speed of the code, then
you are entitled to do anything, I suppose.") ...
* Richard M. Stallman deserves credit for discouraging comments ("I
hope you are not dead set on using C++. C++ is a very badly designed
language.")...
--
William Stein
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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