On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com<mbmiller%2Bl at gmail.com> > wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Adam Morris wrote: > > > I've also used proprietary products that I'm still desparately searching > > for a good FOSS replacement for, but that is another discussion > > altogether. > > I know about that. Right now I don't use Mathematica, or have much of a > need for it, but I don't think anything out there can do what Mathematica > does, not at that level, so I could still see myself using it or > recommending it to my son, but I would proceed cautiously, always trying > to use free software to do the same work whenever the free software could > do it. > There are FOSS software suites out there that aim squarely at Mathematica. (Octave? Sage perhaps?) I think Mathematica is still the BSD of math packages though. And the B in BSD stands for Big, not Berkeley. See "Liar's Poker". (The Book). -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100827/dd8933a1/attachment.htm