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A Mathematica clone would nice. I don't use it, but am familiar with 
some aspects of it. Ignoring the apparent voracity of Wolfram's legal
offense, wishing for a free Mathematica seems a bit ...wishful.

As for symbolic math systems, there is (as people have pointed out)
Calc and the GNUS Bulletin referenced JACAL. These may not be the final
answer, but it would be foolish to ignore them.

My everyday use centers on numerical processing. I use Matlab.
I think a natural, interactive implementatiion of vec/matrix
algebra (essentially BLAS 1-3) would be useful. This particular 
hope has a good start, given the existence of 
blas/linpack/eispack/lapack. Oh yeah, don't forget that everyone
and her pet electron has been working on C++ vector/matrix classes. 

I think a clean, tight, memory efficient, interactive core as above 
would be the way to build up to a numeric/symbolic/graphic GNU math.
(The name itself justifies the launch of a thousand mips :-))

These ideas touch on the following entries in the GNU tasks list:
	APL language	(well, I said touch)
	statistical tools
	implementation of the S language.

Whatever motivated these choices could possibly be served by the
(ideal) above mentioned/wished/handwaved system.

There is also a reference to a generic command language (in the
task list). Wouldn't it be cool to use such a beast (whether such 
a language could contain matrix arithmetic is probably a clearly 
foolish hope, but it's late: I figure if you want to tackle
a problem, tackle a bunch).

This is sort of a wish, but also sort of a plan, the main weakness
of which is the fact that I couldn't really program my way out of a
paper bag, downhill, with a backwind (tackle a problem...).

Some ideas.

	hunter