Re: Does anyone else think Wolfram Research are unfair to Unix users?

Vladimir Bondarenko wrote:

On Jul 9, 2:26 pm, Dave <f...@xxxxxxx> writes:

D> Sage seems to be attracting a lot of developers, with
D> Google, Microsoft and several other big names putting
D> money that way.

We did not have the chance and resource to test SAGE yet.


Who do you mean by "we" ? In British English at least, it implies plural.

Still, based on its components (Maxima etc), and our internal
calculations about Maxima, we now do not feel that spending
some dozens human-years could have shorten tangibly the
conspicuous gap between the commercial CAS systems like
Mathematica and the current open source CAS projects.

I realize that the SAGE folks keep developing also their own
(hopefully, efficient) code. Still, at the same span of time,
say, Wolfram Research pushes their Mathematica even further.

So, maybe, in time, the gap will only grow.

I asked on the Sage developers mailing list, and someone claims that the gap is rapidly decreasing, and in his area of interest, Sage is better than Mathematica.

I guess you will not really be in a position to say unless you look at it properly.
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