- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] SAGE
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:25:31 +0100
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:01:41PM +0100, Henri Lesourd wrote:
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>http://www.sagemath.org
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>presents itself as a texmacs competitor:
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>http://www.sagemath.org/screen_shots/.html/sage_vs_texmacs.html
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>mostly for interfacing with computer algebra systems. Did anyone look at
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>Perhaps they have ideas (or even code) that could be useful for texmacs
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Just to confirm that I know about the initiative.
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What they do is quite good, but it should more be seen
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as complementary to what TeXmacs does than as a competitor.
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As they put it (the emplasis is mine) :
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[[
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The aim is to provide software that can be used to --explore--
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and --experiment-- with mathematical constructions in algebra
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geometry, number theory, calculus, numerical computation, etc.
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SAGE will help make it easier to --interactively-- --experiment--
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with mathematical objects.
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The goal of TeXmacs is not primarily to be a tool for
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exploring and interactively experimenting with mathematics,
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but rather to write mathematical documents and perform
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interactive calculation with professional quality.
This is also my opinion. I would actually support anoyone who
would be interested in making a really good SAGE interface.
However, the SAGE people seem rather interested in the development
of WEB interfaces. So be it.
Best wishes, Joris
- Re: [TeXmacs] SAGE, Joris van der Hoeven, 12/03/2007
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