On May 9, 2007, at 17:56 , Bobby Moretti wrote: > On 5/9/07, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On May 9, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Bobby Moretti wrote: [snip] >> In general, we can't provide a general purpose programming language >> (and SAGE is one) and avoid this kind of thing. I think the real >> concern should be whether this aspect conflicts too badly with the >> desire to provide a sort of "calculus calculator" for the mathematics >> fan who has no interest in, or ability for, programming (and >> therefore will not understand the import of some of his typing until >> after his computations blow chunks...). >> >> I suspect this will not be an issue, but it is worth thinking through >> a few times. > > William is sitting next to me here, and he thinks that a protect > mechanism > is worth exploring. He and I agree that this may end up actually > being a > serious issue for some people.
Do other math software systems deal with this? Is there a consensus by implementation? Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-at-Large () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign /\ Help Cure HTML Email --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
