Re: Mathematica

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From: BRUCE
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1992 16:27

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Re: Mathematica `monopoly'

There are lots of other packages, and a few
free ones, though they're not general purpose.

According to people at a symbolic algebra course I went on a while ago,
Mathematica wasn't even particularly good compared to the others available;
it just has pretty graphics, and very good publicity.

Personally I use Dave Gillespie's wonderful Calc elisp package.  It does
the fairly small things I need to do with adequate speed, and it beats
the others hands-down for interactive manipulation.

It's also Free(tm), of course.
--
Bruce Stephens.  Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Liverpool Univ.

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