The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]

Post by xcombelle » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 8:55 AM UTC

travisoliphant wrote: post #125

arca_vorago wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard quite a bit of preference for the python stack, any reasons that come to mind? Is it just the usability of the language or what?

Everyone has their own story around this. For me, the reason I did not go with Octave when I chose to migrate from Matlab to Python was that I wanted to be part of a general-purpose language community. Octave had the nice advantage of being very close to the Matlab syntax --- which has some nice properties (e.g. easier matrix-math expressions and matrix-building expressions) However, I felt there would be more innova…

I have hard time to understand what you mean (begining at if we could refactor ...) can you give examples ?

Post by williamstein » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 1:59 PM UTC

paulmasson wrote: post #189

noobermin wrote: post #85

I hate to be that guy, but this needs to be said. The guy on page 15 was right. Sage should have at least put a little more effort into their applications, because if it did, it would be much more popular and thus more developed. Back in 2011 or so, as a young undergrad, I latched onto sage and used it for an undergrad research project. My BS was from a tiny university (one year, I was the only Physics major in the s…

As a developer who has recently begun contributing to SageMath, I have to concur with this comment. It's taken me some time to realize the extent to which Sage is geared toward pure mathematicians. The recent changes, for example, in Sage's piecewise() function have made it much less friendly in numerical evaluation than Mathematica's Piecewise[]. If Sage is to have a wider audience, transitions between symbolics and…

Please, please help! We desperately need input from you and people with similar numerical/applied experience. Sage is geared toward pure math, only since that's the backend of nearly all the contributors. But our mission statement has always made it clear that we very much want Sage to be of value outside of pure math.

Re: The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]

Re: The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]