On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:18:30 -0800, Martin Albrecht
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Just some quick notes on the introduction:
>
> * "SAGE is a Python library with a customized interpreter."
>
> Does customized interpreter mean here? The preparser? I think this
> should be
> more specific.
I'd like to add that SAGE is three things:
(1) A unified distribution of free math software that mere mortals
can build from source
(2) A new Python library for mathematical computation
(3) Interfaces to existing mathematical software.
>
> * "The design of SAGE is heavily __________ by the carefully thought out
> and
> mature class structure of the closed source computer algebra program
> MAGMA. "
>
> I guess there is an "influenced" missing.
This was true and year ago, but MAGMA has had very little influence
lately. In fact, right now I'm spending a lot of time digging SAGE
out of what I got from that influence...
> * "(hold the Ctrl ket and d at the same time)"
>
> s/ket/key
>
> * "Once SAGE is installed into a directory such as sage-x.y.z, there
> will be a
> subdirectory called ``bin''. In Linux, cd to this ``bin'' subdirectory
> and
> type the command `./sage'' to start SAGE and display the SAGE prompt
> ``sage:''."
>
> There is a subdirectory called 'bin'? The SAGE startup script is in the
> top
> level directory or is it something specific to the binary distribution?
>
The above "bin" thing was true in SAGE 0.1. It hasn't been like that
in a long long long time. Now you just type ./sage in the top level
SAGE directory.
William
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