On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:20:53PM +1100, Alex Ghitza wrote: > However, it is simply not true that it "requires you to use the web > interface to do anything useful". I have been using Sage extensively > for teaching and research for the past two years and I spend 95% of my > time in the command-line interface. I only use the Sage notebook > (i.e. the web interface) when I need to use graphics in a class, or > during talks (most students, but also a lot of mathematicians seem to > get a blank stare when they look at the command line).
Seems like I should have a look at sage. Im useing octave for simple algebra computation and gnuplot for plotting. Gnuplot is realy nice and octave has the benefit that you dont have to open a graphical interface (like with matlab) to get e.g. the rank of a matrix. But is there a sort of replacement for maple? Does any less-sucking or open-source software support the maple-worksheet (.mw) format?
