2009/11/20 Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com>: > 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? > > Don't be silly. There's nothing like a "suckless" CAS, at least nothing > remotely approaching the simplicity of suckless.org software. Computer > algebra and calculus are complex and computationally intensive. They can't > (and arguably shouldn't) be simplified beyond a point.
Why not? I think it should be possible to have very minimalist and specialized CAS', they managed to do that in the 50s and 60s, why not today? Cheers, Anselm
