On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 07/17/10 07:50 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >> http://wstein.org/talks/stein-sd24/stein-sd24.pdf >> > > Point #7 about why you don't like Magma may be true. The developer community > might be too small, and there may be no public mailing list. > > But to say the same is true of Maple - "(Similar remarks about Maple)", is > IMHO untrue.
Similar != Same. > There are a lot of Maple users. There is the newsgroup > comp.soft-sys.math.maple. Maple questions are often asked (and answered) on > sci.math.symbolic. > > http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/maple_links.html > > lists more Maple resources. > > For a viable alternative you list: > "All the mathematical features of Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab with > comparable (or better) speed, including sophisticated symbolic calculus, > special functions, global fields, easy of use and documentation." > > Can you make an estimate, based on extrapolating the progress of Sage, when > it would be possible to have this, based on the state of these products in > 2010? (Ignore future developments of these products). No. > Do you think it will > be possible in your lifetime? > > PS, One thing you omitted from that list, is being no less reliable than any > of them. > > Dave > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
