Jaap Spies wrote:
> SAGE works the other way around. Python is the glue to join not only
> maxima, pari, singular, matplotlib and many other open source programs.
> It is even possible to use the three big M's, Maple, Mathematica and MAGMA
> via a standard interface. A Matlab interface is on its way.
> Python/SAGE is a mainstream, modern programming language.
>
>
> http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/
> http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/components.html
I'd love to try it if all those components were distributed separately.
There are many reason for this
1)84Mb ? source code and your site is slow
2)The particular user need only a few componets, e.g. , I would use
python, numpy and maxima, mathplotlib.
3) Most linux distribution have python, numpy, maxima and etc.
4) Sage use clisp to compile maxima (at least it was so 1 year ago). This is
really slowest choice. I admit that many other people can prefer clisp over
sbcl and cmucl. But it is always better to have a choice in this option
because maxima gives this choice.
....
good luck,
Valery