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 > > -- > 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. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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.
