Am 04.11.2014 um 20:36 schrieb Richard Fateman:
On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 1:02:54 AM UTC-8, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
Obviously, Red Hat does not exist in your reality.
It does; don't they deliver Pizza?
Oh, sorry,. yes I heard of them.
Um... well... if that's the level at which you're going to discuss FOSS,
I guess I don't mind.
I think the prospects for my making some constructive comments here
are non-zero, even if I'm argumentative.
Yeah, but that argumentativeness is somewhat grating, which means
everybody who's answering to you has to overcome some drain.
Working around the harshness, trying to stay polite, looking through the
words to isolate the actual substance... this takes time, energy, and
goodwill, and these resources are sapped eventually.
Frankly, after our initial clash, I have been trying to hold back and
see whether others find your comments more helpful. Now that Aaron (an
extremely patient and friendly guy) is showing nerve, I concluce I'm not
the only one who finds your style... well, suboptimal.
> There is a tendency for people
doing Sage or sympy to be unaware of the previous efforts in the field,
and to therefore repeat the design errors that have been mentioned in
the open literature.
Yeah, but the question "which design errors" was answered with "I'm not
going to do your homework". Which is okay, but then your statement is
just general advice, already well-known (I happen to be graduated and a
software architect thank you very much, others probably have as well)...
so you're not adding value or knowledge that isn't already there.
So you are free to ignore my advice, write programs that reproduce
the design flaws of Mathematica, Maxima, Maple, ... I have no problem
if you give them away, especially with a BSD style license.
Yes, but you can't even name any design flaws.
Plus, your advice essentially amounted to "redo it in Lisp". Which isn't
entirely unreasonable, but outside the list of available options (I
suspect those with Lisp inclination are already active in doing symbolic
math in Lisp).
(I'm also quite sceptical about Lisp, because it's all power to the
developer and no guarantees to the maintainer, and I do not think that's
a viable option in the long term unless you can guarantee that every
coder on the project is top-notch, but that's just a tangent).
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