> > 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... > > > Though "Several commercial vendors have recently changed their license- Version 2.00. manager practices, so that only the two or three most-recent versions can be run. That regrettable decision far too quickly makes it impossible to reproduce computations made even as recently as two or three years ago. Work is simply not scienti c when it is not reproducible." seems reasonable, and "I applaud the ICERM report’s urging of the creation of scientific data repositories, but I would go even further." In fact, there is a lot to agree with in the comments to the report as well as the report, even if the complaints about monoculture (however well-intended) sort of miss the point. Certainly item 1 should be popular around here.
Also, in case the author reads this, Octave is not included in Sage (end of item 11), just an interface, a surprising oversight for someone whose copy-editing skills are so good that he noted item 15! - kcrisman -- 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.
