Thanks for posting this. That said the big "SAGE must choose" question below doesn't actually make any sense given how sage is developed...
On Wednesday, August 27, 2014, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting comment on the post on Facebook. Note the comment about > payment as well. > +++ > In my university, we have been using a sagenb server for three years. We > use it in Calculus/Algebra courses for mathematicians, electrical > ingenieers, agricultural ingenieers, etc. We really use a few basic > commands. If Sage has the 1% functionality or less than Magma, Mathematica, > etc, is not a problem for us. Our main problem is that the manual and > documentation are a mess, lacking of enough examples (please, why not do > something like Mathematica?). Anothe problem is the interface, for > instance, you can not select several cells and make copy/paste (I know this > is posible with sagemathcloud). Or for instance, it is difficult to avoid > that pupils share worksheets in a final individual test. With respect to > functionality we have problems with basic graphics (some of them fixed > today, to be fair). Still having problems solving basic inequalities. > Come on guys, SAGE has A LOT of possibilities that make it for > universities a better choice than Mathematica, Maple, etc. But you should > take care of interface, manuals and help and basic functionalities. I'm > sure that many universities would pay if flexible possibilities of payment > are allowed. > In my opinión SAGE has to choose: > 1. Focus on development of more and new specialiced functionalities. In > this case, its users will be a small group of researchers that don't care > how rough or how time consuming is to make a few instructions to work > properly. Besides, it will be difficult to obtain financing, thus you can > compete only in a Little specialized part (magma, mathematica, maple, GAP > all together is too ambicious). > 2. Focus on basic functionalities on calculus and basic algebra for > teaching. They need to be improved (the power of Maxima is poor in > inequalities, integrals, numeric series... it is not enough at all). They > need also to be user friendly and easy to learn. In this case maybe you can > obtain money from universities and with that money, maybe you can work on > quaternion algebras. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel@googlegroups.com');>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org wst...@uw.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
