[Axiom-developer] FW: FW: axiom on sage.math

[Bill Page]

Thanks for the tip, William.

-----Original Message-----
From: William Stein [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: October 19, 2006 6:12 PM
To: Bill Page
Subject: Re: FW: axiom on sage.math

Bill,

You could add that if somebody types

   sage:   notebook(system="axiom")

to get an Axiom notebook (basically all cells automatically have %axiom at  
the top).

William

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:26:27 -0700, Bill Page wrote:

> Dear Axiom Developers,
>
> Sage is a radical new idea in computer algebra system design which
> aims to integrate the many freely available open source computer
> algebra packages (and some commercial packages if you own a licensed
> copy) into a powerful unified environment with a common user language
> and interface.
>
> Thanks to the seemingly tireless efforts of William Stein, the lead
> developer of Sage:
>
> http://sage.math.washington.edu/
>
> who helped untangle and reweave the code that I hacked during the
> recent Sage Days 2 workshop, the Axiom interface is now available
> in Sage version 1.4.1.1!
>
> If you already have Axiom installed, you should be able to install
> Sage from
>
> http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage
>
> and immediately access Axiom in Sage. (as well as many other computer
> algebra packages). You will also be able to use Axiom interactively
> via the Sage Notebook on your desktop.
>
> If you don't have Axiom installed see:
>
> http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomBinaries
>
> If you have an earlier version of Sage, you can use standard methods
> in Sage to upgrade to the newest version:
>
>   sage -upgrade
>
> Plus you can now try Axiom online on the Sage public server. See for
> example:
>
> http://sage-notebook.axiom-developer.org/106
>
> You can easily create your own new worksheets and experiment with
> Axiom and the other computer algebra systems integrated with Sage at
> this web site.
>
> Please find out more about Sage and help us improve this new Axiom
> user interface. The interface is already quite usable but this is
> only the first version and we have much more work to do to expose
> Axiom's powerful features, such as the Axiom library compilers SPAD
> and Aldor, Axiom's graphics, and Axiom's library browser to all
> Sage users. There is also some interesting research to be done on the
> subject of how best to integrate Axiom's static strongly typed
> programming language with the Sage user language which is based on
> the dynamic strong types of Python.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Regards,
> Bill Page.