Richard Fateman wrote:
[...]
>
> * I have been trying to understand my queasiness about Sage, and I think
> these messages from Mike Hansen and William Stein and Tom Boothby have
> clarified it.
>
> Sage has a "mission statement" and a "philosophy".
>
>> The Sage project would like to provide for free a viable open source
>> alternative to Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, and Magma for people or
>> situations where those systems would otherwise be the only
>> serious choice. ...
>
> Sounds good, so why am I queasy?
>
> There are, in my opinion, other open source alternatives [VOSA] (Maxima,
> Axiom, XCAS, Octave ...) that could be substituted for Sage in the sentence
> above.
>
You don't want to see the point! From the early day's you have been hostile
to Sage. Remember your message from news math.symbolic Dec 2005?!
My proposal at that time: "Shall we join the party?".
All individual open source programs you can download will not offer
an alternative to the Ma*'s. Sage offers a way to combine efforts!
Sage means integration of relevant mathematics software.
Maybe you are just an old sour man. Your are so negative to people who are
enthousiastic about new developments! I'm old to, but I like to be open to
the world.
Jaap