On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Andrey Novoseltsev <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, 5 January 2015 07:53:20 UTC-7, kcrisman wrote:
>>
>> See http://habrahabr.ru/post/247277/ - someone posted this on Sage social
>> media.  Honestly, an English version of this would be useful too...
>>
>> Interestingly, the comments seem largely negative - need good internet,
>> prefers Anaconda, wants something more like IPython... perhaps someone could
>> comment there a little more robustly that we do have a command-line version!
>> The author himself says, regarding school students using things like Matlab:
>>
>> Если мы объединимся, мы можем изменить это положение вещей. На мой взгляд
>> необходимо сделать 3 вещи:
>>
>> Русифицировать интерфейс SMC,
>> Написать справку и учебные пособия на русском языке,
>> Рассказать про SMC своим друзьям и детям.
>>
>> Luckily, if you understand these points, you also may be able to help
>> achieve them.  (Modulo William or someone else working on
>> https://github.com/sagemath/cloud/issues/180, for the first point.)
>
>
> For the record this "someone" is Andrei Shirshov who has been around here
> for a while, and he posted appropriate answers to comments to the article.
> Most "negativity" I would say comes from questioning usefulness of Sage for
> numeric computations, where other (perhaps smaller/simpler) packages can
> provide required functionality.

And a big plus about Andrei Shirshov is that he does engineering and
applied mathematics (not pure mathematics like many of us), so he is
well equipped to answer such questions.

William

>
> Andrey
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