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[Bas Spitters <address@hidden>]

Dear Mike,

Interesting.

After sending the message, I imagined that this would be an interesting and 
perhaps more uniform way of interfacing with CASs. Looking (only) at the 
screen shot I imagine that sage returns some kind of structured output for 
CASs. I once spend some time doing a magma plugin for texmacs, but gave up 
when having to parse multiline ascii. Magma should just return some 
structured output (tex/ XML/ texmacs...). It seems that Sage provides this 
for a number of systems (including magma).

Perhaps, you can explain a bit more about your Sage plugin so that people can 
expand on it. [I will have to apologise in advance for lacking the time for 
this myself at this point.]

Bas

On Wednesday 28 November 2007 09:38:39 Mike Hansen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a Sage developer (who happened to write the Sage plug-in for
> TeXmacs).  While one of the goals is to make it so that computer
> algebra systems can work together, I don't view that as its primary
> goal.  Sage's goal is to create a free, open-source viable alternative
> to Magma, Mathematica, Maple, and MATLAB.  Part of this involves
> making use of existing open source math software, but a lot of it is
> implementing new functionality that fills in the missing gaps.
>
> I would like to see the Sage plugin for TeXmacs expanded upon, but I
> personally have too many other things to work on at the moment.
>
> --Mike
>
> On Nov 28, 2007 2:22 AM, Bas Spitters <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sage
> >
> > http://www.sagemath.org
> >
> > presents itself as a texmacs competitor:
> >
> > http://www.sagemath.org/screen_shots/.html/sage_vs_texmacs.html
> >
> > mostly for interfacing with computer algebra systems. Did anyone look at
> > it? Perhaps they have ideas (or even code) that could be useful for
> > texmacs too.
> >
> > Bas