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I've devoted my life to beating Mathematica for general symbolic math use. Don't tell me I can't. :-)

Y_Y 10y ago
I took a "Computer Algebra" class in undergrad which was taught entirely in Mathematica. It was a lot of work to convert everything (and the instructor would jokingly refer to me as "sage guy") but I got an awful lot out of using Sage instead. What keeps me from using sage nowadays is that I have a great jupyter workflow, and last time I used Sage it was just a worse version of that with better symbolic support.
- williamstein 10y ago
  Sage 7.4 now includes Jupyter as our main personal notebook UI.
  - leephillips 10y ago
    Just went to sagemath.org to check it out. The link to the changelog is broken. My editor was concerned about the two names, Sage and SageMath. As far as I could tell they're just synonyms, but do you have any guidance about which is to be used when?
    - williamstein 10y ago
      Thanks. In the meantime, see https://github.com/sagemath/sage/commits/master https://github.com/sagemath/sage/commits/master or https://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/ https://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/
    - williamstein 10y ago
      The official name is SageMath, but you can call it Sage for short.
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - leephillips 10y ago
    Tried it. Dumps core as soon as it's started. I'll look for a place to file a bug report, but thought I would mention it here. Ubuntu 15.10.
pmiller2 10y ago
I hope you can, someday! Unfortunately, I think Python (as an interface) is one of the things holding Sage back. I very much appreciate having a lispy, mostly functional language when writing mathematics oriented code. And then, there are the docs.... I appreciate what you do, but your competition has a big manpower advantage and a huge head start. Like I said, I truly do hope you can beat Mathematica at its own game someday, but it doesn't look like that day will be anytime soon.
jordigh 10y ago
Keep your chin up. I also don't like hearing the naysayers, and we can still prove them wrong. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7483648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7483648 https://lobste.rs/s/eftgy8/switching_ubuntu_from_apple/comments/twynyk#c_twynyk https://lobste.rs/s/eftgy8/switching_ubuntu_from_apple/comme...

Y_Y 10y ago

I took a "Computer Algebra" class in undergrad which was taught entirely in Mathematica. It was a lot of work to convert everything (and the instructor would jokingly refer to me as "sage guy") but I got an awful lot out of using Sage instead. What keeps me from using sage nowadays is that I have a great jupyter workflow, and last time I used Sage it was just a worse version of that with better symbolic support.

williamstein 10y ago
Sage 7.4 now includes Jupyter as our main personal notebook UI.
- leephillips 10y ago
  Just went to sagemath.org to check it out. The link to the changelog is broken. My editor was concerned about the two names, Sage and SageMath. As far as I could tell they're just synonyms, but do you have any guidance about which is to be used when?
  - williamstein 10y ago
    Thanks. In the meantime, see https://github.com/sagemath/sage/commits/master https://github.com/sagemath/sage/commits/master or https://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/ https://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/
  - williamstein 10y ago
    The official name is SageMath, but you can call it Sage for short.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- leephillips 10y ago
  Tried it. Dumps core as soon as it's started. I'll look for a place to file a bug report, but thought I would mention it here. Ubuntu 15.10.

pmiller2 10y ago

I hope you can, someday! Unfortunately, I think Python (as an interface) is one of the things holding Sage back. I very much appreciate having a lispy, mostly functional language when writing mathematics oriented code. And then, there are the docs.... I appreciate what you do, but your competition has a big manpower advantage and a huge head start. Like I said, I truly do hope you can beat Mathematica at its own game someday, but it doesn't look like that day will be anytime soon.

jordigh 10y ago

Keep your chin up. I also don't like hearing the naysayers, and we can still prove them wrong. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7483648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7483648 https://lobste.rs/s/eftgy8/switching_ubuntu_from_apple/comments/twynyk#c_twynyk https://lobste.rs/s/eftgy8/switching_ubuntu_from_apple/comme...