Re: Mathematica

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From: Steve Williams
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1992 05:36

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rocek@dirac.physics.sunsyb.edu (Martin Rocek) writes:
: Is there anyone at FSF who is interested in writing a free replacement
: for Mathematica?  Wolfram has one of the most predatory policies that
: I know of; for example, consider our situation:
: We run Mathematica on a SGI platform.  We recently upgraded our
: operating system.  Mathematica stopped working.  According to Wolfram,
...

What about Calc (.el)?

It's amazing and I think I read that it's supposed to have 80% of the
capabilities of Mathematica, including plotting with GNU Plot.

It's the largest lisp program I've actually used! (over 1MB)

sdw

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