On 05/13/2011 02:49 AM, Saptarshi Mandal wrote: > The situation in my college is that several people use Matlab/ > Mathematica for various reasons > and really have no incentive to shift to an open source CAS (except > for geek cred) unless it is > easier to use. The reason being that copyright laws are lax in India > and many people just download > whatever software they need off warez sites.
When I started studying a few years back, the only OSS we used was Octave. Nowadays, students are taught SAGE among others. Even if student licences are affordable, I don't think closed source programs are appropriate in academia and teaching. > I think this sort of evangelism is one way of getting the sympy > userbase to grow. > I've been name-dropping SymPy at every opportunity lately. :) Jeremias -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
