Talk:Macaulay2

Merge Macaulay into Macaulay2?
I propose that the Macaulay article could be merged into the Macaulay2 article with little harm. The official website for Macaulay says "It's 2003. That 70's haircut really has to go. While you're at it, are you sure you want this program? It warms our hearts every time we hear of a diehard Macaulay enthusiast, but even Dave has switched to Macaulay 2." So I don't think anyone is using this at this point. It's of some limited historical note, but that could be handled well by a "Macaulay predecessor" section in the Macaulay2 article. (It might also be worth referencing some of the comments from the Macaulay2 book on why they recoded from scratch.)

That is, I'm proposing one Macaulay2 page, which discusses the predecessor system in its own section and in some detail, with a redirect from the Macaulay page to that section.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Russ Woodroofe (talk • contribs) 17:01, 2019 September 27 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a very good idea to me. I started using Macaulay in the early 1990s, but in 1997 Dan Grayson talked me into switching to M2, and I never looked back after that.  There were still a few diehards using Dave Bayer's old Macaulay after Y2K, but I haven't heard of anyone doing so in at  least 15 years.  So yes, merging the two articles makes lots of sense. Turgidson (talk) 19:07, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, it's been a week, and the only comment has been positive. I'll attempt to go ahead and carry this out.  I want to clarify that my proposal here is different from a previous merge that was reverted by an IP address edit.  That merge didn't explain that Macaulay is a distinct system from Macaulay2 (although no longer much used, and with a clear successor). Russ Woodroofe (talk) 15:17, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Logo
The "9 planets" image that I've added to the logo field of the infobox may or may not be officially named as a logo, but the project certainly uses it in a logo-like way: at the top of the main page, at the front of the documention, on their wiki, etc. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 21:30, 7 November 2019 (UTC)