> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Cesar Agustin Garcia Vazquez
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I was wondering, while I was reading the Sage programming guide, why Octave
>> is not part of Sage, is there any reason?
>>

Another reason is that Numpy/scipy already provides very similar
functionality to octave, but in a much more Pythonic way.    On top
of that, Sage also includes GSL, which again has a large functionality
overlap.  Finally, building octave from source is not easy.

We did try for a long time to include Octave instead of scipy (I know
that sounds stupid in retrospect), but it was just too difficult.

 -- William

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