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ThePiercingPrince
ThePiercingPrince

Reputation: 1921

How to use Scheme instead of Python in Sage Math

Unlike commercial mathematics apps, Sage Math uses Python as its scripting language. I don't like it because it doesn't have tail recursion, isn't homoiconic, and uses indentation to put out statement blocks. How can I use another language like Scheme instead?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 344

Answers (2)

Robert Dodier
Robert Dodier

Reputation: 17575

Aside from Sage, you could try Maxima [1], which is implemented in Common Lisp -- you can easily write additional programs in CL and integrate them with Maxima.

Maxima has its own programming language which has Lisp-like features (e.g. homoiconic) but to be honest, the programming language is kind of clumsy.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/maxima, http://maxima.sourceforge.net

Upvotes: 1

Óscar López
Óscar López

Reputation: 236112

If you don't like Python you can use C/C++ or Fortran. Sage is built around Python / Cython libraries, with little interoperability with other programming languages in mind.

Or you could use a Scheme interpreter that compiles to C (say, Chicken Scheme or Gambit Scheme) and somehow call the generated code from Sage, in principle it should be possible. But why bother? give Python a try, you'll discover that it's quite a nice language to work with, with many scientific libraries and applications.

Upvotes: 5

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