Flame on.

A thread recently made me angry on sage-devel:

http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/cbb7a39575870636

> Do we really need Cliquer in Sage?
>

I know this comment will be pointless, as I am pretty sure those who agree with Dr. Kirkby only want a Mathematica clone for solaris (based on his recent posts) but I'm going to go ahead and flame anyway.

I am not able to count how many times I've been in a combinatorics lecture while an algorithm using max Cliques to solve the problem at hand was casually thrown into the mix.

I am also not able to understand why Nathann received such harsh backlash for pointing out something so obvious.

I am around professors every day who use C and hardly ever check their malloc's. These are the kind of people who have written full chapters in the CRC handbook of combinatorial designs, and books(plural!) on combinatorial algorithms.

I find it revolting that there would exist math software that would cut strong usable features based on code quality. This kind of policy does NOT promote code sharing among researchers.

long live purple sage