[GAP Forum] Has anybody created a browser-runnable version of GAP?

[Dmitrii (Dima) Pasechnik]

Dear Vipul,

Sage does not require any "complicated on-boarding process"
to run GAP online.
Namely, all you need is to login to sagenb.org (using an account from
any major OpenID provider, e.g. Google), open a new worksheet, and
(important!) to change the input language to GAP (this can be chosen
in a pull-down menu atop the worksheet - the default language is
Sage).
Then you can perfectly run GAP commands. E.g. I just did this on sagenb:

s:=SymmetricGroup(6);
h:=SylowSubgroup(s,3);
Order(h);

and the output was, as expected:
Sym( [ 1 .. 6 ] )
Group([ (1,2,3), (4,5,6) ])
9

Tab-completion for GAP commands works; help also works, although you
need to put '?' after the keyword.

Thus, " for somebody who just wants to run a few quick commands"
this is good enough, IMHO.

Installing a sage notebook server is indeed a bit tricky, depending
upon how secure it needs to be, etc.

Last but not the least, let me point out that installing GAP locally
is really very easy, much easier than Sage.

HTH,
Dmitrii


On 14 September 2012 06:41, Vipul Naik <vipul at math.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Dear GAP forum,
>
> I'm wondering whether anybody has considered or implemented a version
> of GAP that could be run directly in a modern desktop/laptop web
> browser, so that people can run quick GAP commands online when working
> from machines that don't have the software installed.
>
> If one wanted to create something like this, how would one go about
> it, and what are the challenges involved?
>
> I am aware of SAGE, which is great for many purposes, but it's quite
> different from GAP and it has a fairly complicated on-boarding process
> for somebody who just wants to run a few quick commands.
>
> Vipul
>
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