Vadim wrote:
> Hedos wrote:
>> such as
>> Maxima, or perhaps as somebody else mentionned, SAGE?
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> However studying SAGE has many YES and NOs, IMO.
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> Essentially SAGE is a bridge between different CAS systems.
> So deepening into it will allow you to widen your vision on the subject.
>
SAGE is much more than that, see:
http://www.sagemath.org/ or http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/
> On the other side, while there are many applauses to SAGE, I do not see
> it really much useful.
> It connects different CAS mostly using commands and pipes, which I find
> as not a robust way.
Why not?
> It uses the Python language, and everywhere in the code it mentions how
> much Perl is bad programming language.
>
This is certainly not true!
> IMO just striping away all impolite comments from SAGE will improve its
> overall impression.
>
Please give an example of impolite code!
I invite everybody to view the code on the homepage of SAGE:
http://www.sagemath.org/hg/sage-main?cmd=manifest;manifest=-1;path=/sage/
Regards,
Jaap