I think the greatest value of this would be that new users who are used to other systems could find equivalent commands by searching for what they already know. For example, a Mathematica user might search for NDSolve and be led to ode_solver.
Perhaps we need a new official docstring title for this (i.e. like EXAMPLES or NOTES). -Marshall On Sep 21, 4:11 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> wrote: > I was just looking at a post of Minh's, in which he suggested others had > suggested adding to docstrings the names of related commands. That seems very > sensbile - just like the "man" pages of a Unix system. > > How would people feel about providing links to MathWorld and Wikipedia on the > docstrings too? > > i.e. for "norm" > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8825 > > add links to > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_normhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/Norm.htmlhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/MatrixNorm.htmlhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/VectorNorm.html > > IMHO, it would also be worth adding the nearest equivalent commands in > Macsyma, > Mathematica, Maple and MATLAB, though I doubt that will be possible for many > commands. sin() would have > > Sin[] - nearest equivalent command for Mathematica > sin() - nearest equivalent command for MATLAB > > I don't know about the command for 'sine' in other packages, but no doubt > someone is familiar with them. > > One could also add for packages where there is no similar command for the > commercial packages. > > foobar() - As of version 7.0, Mathematica has no similar functionality. > > I think at one point, providing a list of equivalent commands in these > packages > should be done, to aid people porting code from these packages to Sage. A > start > would be to document the nearest equivalent commands in the actual docstrings. > > At least if a conversion list was ever made, the docstrings would provide some > help to those compiling such a list. > > Dave -- 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
