> > WHY THE HELL IS SO MUCH MONEY AND TIME SPENT ON DOING IT IN STEAD OF > > AUTOMATING IT AWAY!!!!! > > I think you are misunderstanding what kind of boring work we are talking > about. For example, porting Sage to Python 3 is certainly boring but > cannot be fully automated. There are tools which can partially automate > the Python 3 conversion, but those cannot cope with some fundamental > things like the disappearance of __cmp__. >
Creating high-quality documentation (beyond our hit-or-miss reference manual) and textbooks and so forth is not automatable. Sorry. My life as an educator would be SO much easier if it were :( On a different note, I think that the existence of RStudio has definitely contributed to R's popularity in certain circles, though I find much of its documentation, woefully, worse than that of Sage, or even of some man pages... Microsoft now owns one of the main R front ends/enhancements, I believe. But RStudio is Affero GPL (not sure about all their products). So there is some precedent for completely open-source interfaces enhancing the core project (though RStudio doesn't have exactly the same purpose as SMC, either as a company or software). -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
