On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:23:35PM -0600, A.J. Gardner wrote: > I'm interested in math and CASs, but my opinions on available software > are ill-formed and mostly ignorant. Does anyone else here have an > interest in this topic, broadly speaking? If so, do you have any > preferences for one package over another? Have you found any math > software that seem to follow the worse-is-better design model? > > How is gnuplot? gmp bignum library? Maxima? Sympy? Octave? Ever used > any of these?
You might also want to check out Pari/GP (algebra) and R (statistics). I understand those are highly respected software packages. I've only used octave before. Personally I think matlab and hence octave syntax is really ugly. > > I'm too much of a n00b (and I'm still trying to wrap my mind around > what it means for software to suck less) to actually tell if some code > does, in fact, suck less. > > tl;dr: Anyone know of any suckless math software out there in the tubes? > > Best, > A.J. >
