Hi, I'm writing a paper associated to my plenary talk at FoCM 2011 Budapest, and I am tempted to make the following statement: "The bug tracking done by the developers of all four of the Ma's is secret; none of them publish a list of all known bugs, the status of work on them, and how bugs are resolved."
Here Ma's = Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab. ** Question: Is this actually true? ** I've always thought it was true, but maybe it isn't. If anybody knows if *any* of the proprietary Ma's make the list of known bugs public, can you let me know? Oh, if anybody knows why they don't (for the Ma's that don't), I'm curious. (I'm not asking for idle speculation, or reasons you make up for them not making their lists public.) I'm going to use the above to segue into mentioning Sage's trac. I'll also put a link to http://cybertester.com/ and http://maple.bug-list.org/ to emphasize that the Ma's are definitely not bug free. Thanks! William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
