I think it is somewhat disheartening to see Mathematica accepted as a program whose major or only flaw is that it is not open source.
But maybe I didn't read all the comments. It seems that the ycombinator contributors tend to rattle on a while. RjF On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 5:49:13 AM UTC-8, bluescarni wrote: > > It's somewhat refreshing to see that the idea that one should not use > black box software in science is finally starting to sink in. > > On 20 January 2016 at 13:30, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> There's a big thread on Hacker News about math software in which Sage >> is mentioned a few times: >> >> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10934666 >> >> I have the impression very few of the comments are from >> mathematicians... Nonetheless, some people may find the comments >> interesting, since they reflect how open source math and scientific >> software such as Sage/Python/Sympy/Octave are (mis-)perceived by one >> group of potential users. >> >> -- William >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
