Re: [Axiom-developer] Ask Slashdot

[Eugene Surowitz]

Actually the real problem here is the advertising leverage that query
and the uncritical nature of the response give to Mathematica.
How could such queries be spotted and more appropriate pointer responses
to math sites be generated?

Cheers, Eugene Surowitz

Bill Page wrote:

> Bob,
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> Wow, this is pretty funny and scary stuff! Certainly a "hot
> topic" if the number of replies to the original article is
> any indication (> 250 replies in just 2 hours, is that normal
> on slashdot?) . It appears Maxima wins hands down, followed
> closely by "why not pencil and paper?". I see Axiom mentioned
> once with our current url http://axiom.axiom-developer.org
> (thank you someone ...)
>
> But personally I am inclined to leave this kind of query to the
> nerds who still think "that there is nothing out there that even
> comes close to Wolfram's excellent Mathematica". Obviously they
> are really looking... <grin>
>
> Regards,
> Bill Page.
>
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 
> > address@hidden 
> > [mailto:address@hidden
> > .org] On Behalf Of Bob McElrath
> > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 7:34 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [Axiom-developer] Ask Slashdot
> >
> >
> > "Ask Slashdot" has a very relevant question to Axiom, and a great
> > opportunity to inform people about it:
> >
> >    
>  http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/13/2355258&tid=185&tid=4
>
>
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