2007/3/17, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>:
> You can find a bunch of things that Mathematica does wrong (and Maxima may
> do right) in my review of Mathematica, which I have linked to my home page.
Thanks.
I also wanted to ask a similar question, as I my department, I was due
to show why to use octave instead of matlab for the numerical analysis
courses, and someone reacted saying that we should altogether drop
matlab and octave for Mathematica, *the* system for him that could be
used to teach a modern programming language (I would like to have some
arguments in that respect) and a system that could be used to work in
a much larger framework.
I am buiding my arguments, that we should use a free system, and if
looking beyond simply numerical computations, then go for SAGE for
example, that offers a free environnement (it is a free software)
python as programming language, with the power and features of a cas
(thanks to Maxima and others), numerical tool (thanks to python
matlplotlib and scipy, but also octave if needed) and a nice web
interface (much like Mathematica).
I would appreciate your experiences (I will also ask my friends in the
octave, scipy and SAGE lists) for their arguments.
THanks,
Nicolas
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