Re: Sage

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Sage-tp1570939p1570991.html

Owen Densmore wrote:
>> - It integrates just about every open source math library into a
>> python.  I had no idea just how much of scientific computing had
>> moved to python.  R, for example has rpy.  The entire GSL (Gnu
>> Science Library) has pygsl.  Somehow numpy/scipy/matplotlib all got
>> rationally integrated as the matrix/plotting underpinnings.
As a user one might think Python, but the implementations are still
reference ones (e.g. non-Python).
I think this is the way to go.  It's crazy to reimplement huge swaths of
functionality every time a slightly better language comes along..  
Especially delicate codes like this.

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