His main issue seems to be that Sage uses gcc and won't easily compile with some ancient compiler on a dead platform?
On the other hand, I agree with the superior logic in "Thus, with the exception of awk, Java, and sh, we must reject virtually all scripting languages, including icon, javascript, perl, php, python, ruby, ...". And since Java is not a scripting language, I'll from now on spend all my time rewriting Sage in awk. Who is with me? ;-) On Friday, September 12, 2014 2:24:27 AM UTC+1, wstein wrote: > > Hi Sage Devs, > > I just received this email which links to a report about "global > digital math libraries" and also a long and opinionated document by > somebody named Nelson Beebe. Since Sage is mentioned a few times in > both documents, I thought I would forward them, since maybe some Sage > developers might find something of interest. The first document > ICERM-2014.pdf seems to aim to be factual and well balanced, whereas I > could barely look at the second document entitled > "ICERM-2014-NOTES.pdf" without feeling very annoyed... > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nelson H. F. Beebe <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:20 PM > Subject: [GDML] [gdml] ICERM report and comments > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > > > The ICERM (Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in > Mathematics) workshop led to the production of an 18-page report > published on the Web on 28-Aug-2014. I read it, and sent a long reply > in e-mail to the authors. One of them suggested that I write up my > comments in PDF form, and earlier this week, I did so, adding some > polishing and additional information, and numerous Web links. > > The two reports are available here: > > http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/icerm > > There is discussion in both of the desirability of global digital math > libraries, the main topic of this mailing list, so I expect that some > of you may be interested in the two reports. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 > - > - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 > - > - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: > [email protected] <javascript:> - > - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 [email protected] <javascript:> > [email protected] <javascript:> - > - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: > http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
