Re: Sage

Posted by Alfredo Covaleda-2 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Sage-tp1570939p1571022.html

Marcus

Thanks. Pretty interesting. I didn't know anything about SAGE. If you compare it with Maxima and R, SAGE must be really good.

I like Maxima and R so much. Maxima is an amazing software. I'm still admired with a software that makes algebra so simple and fast. In Windows Maxima  makes everything you want, but in their Linux version seems to still lack some capabilities. Am I wrong or Maxima isn't fully developed for Linux?.

Alfredo

2008/11/24 Marcus G. Daniels <[hidden email]>

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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