[ExI] New Maths software

[BillK]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Bryan Bishop wrote:
> I think scipy, sympy and R are more reasonable alternatives to those.
> Sage/Octave have always seemed a bit sprawling to me.
>
>

Horses for courses.
These are more specialized, I think. scipy and sympy are for Python
programmers and R seems to be for writing statistical analysis
software.

Sage and Mathematica are for general purpose use by mathematicians.


BillK