I made all these changes to http://sage.math.washington.edu:9001/A_short_introduction_to_SAGE I deleted "heavily" (influenced by MAGMA). Or should the reference to MAGMA deleted entirely?
On 11/19/06, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-forum URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
