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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Bas Spitters 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.
>
>  
What they do is quite good, but it should more be seen
as complementary to what TeXmacs does than as a competitor.

As they put it (the emplasis is mine) :
[[
The aim is to provide software that can be used to --explore--
and --experiment-- with mathematical constructions in algebra
geometry, number theory, calculus, numerical computation, etc.
SAGE will help make it easier to --interactively-- --experiment--
with mathematical objects.
]]


The goal of TeXmacs is not primarily to be a tool for
exploring and interactively experimenting with mathematics,
but rather to write mathematical documents and perform
interactive calculation with professional quality.

I don't mean that TeXmacs should despise exploring and
interactively experimenting.


This being said, as far as interactivity and "experimentability",
as well as with parametrability / programmability of the
software (including using more mainstream programming tools
and techniques, e.g. Python), TeXmacs could be improved.

But in the context of TeXmacs, the task is much harder than in
the case of SAGE, which only seems to be generating web pages.