On 7/14/11, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> I especially like the comment about Sage using Python, "a real
> programming language". As if any of the other programming languages are
> less real than Python.
Well, this is probably a reference to the front-end user language,
not the implementation language. Typically math systems
(symbolic and numerical alike) have a user language which is
just cobbled together as an afterthought. Python has, at least,
the advantage of being more nearly complete and more
carefully designed.
It has occurred to me that Python could be a front-end language
for Maxima, but it would require some work.
best,
Robert Dodier