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I try to avoid Mathematica because Wolfram himself is a self-centered prick and it's closed source - it is a shame, too. Matlab's strength is doing lots of thi
by analognoise 11y ago
I try to avoid Mathematica because Wolfram himself is a self-centered prick and it's closed source - it is a shame, too.
Matlab's strength is doing lots of things for you through its toolboxes; Sage Math is a bloated monster, Maxima is pretty damn good, haven't spent any time with Axiom. Octave is pretty good (none of those delicious toolboxes though) and Scilab just 'felt' wrong (and its Simulink knockoff was atrocious). Mathcad is great, but also expensive and closed - Mathworks kneecapped them by buying the company that made their symbolic engine (and turning it into a toolbox/addon for Matlab).
OpenModelica I never got far with, but I'd like to do some multidomain simulation with eventually.
If I missed a good CAS, let me know.
- CyberDildonics 11y agoI can't believe you would have tried all these and not Julia.
- williamstein 11y agoNemo - a Julia-based CAS - was just released yesterday: https://plus.google.com/106997024604580807053/posts/GUWM4QiLBX3 https://plus.google.com/106997024604580807053/posts/GUWM4QiL... Also, I'm sorry you find SageMath to be a "bloated monster", but mathematics itself is really complicated, and unfortunately there seems to be no royal road to geometry.
- analognoise 11y agoI have huge respect for the project, and I have used the same quote...but you have to run an entire Linux system in a VM. If that isn't bloated, I have no idea what is.
- agumonkey 11y agoMathematica has a bad god-object/spaghetti bowl smell. Wolfram demos might look appealing, but I've read few bits here and there that the abstraction don't compose well.
- hn9780470248775 11y agoMatlab is not a computer algebra system.
- analognoise 11y agoEver use the Symbolic Math Toolbox, like I mentioned?...it's a CAS.
- hn9780470248775 11y agoIt's just Maple in disguise. :-)
- pacala 11y agoHow about Sympy, http://www.sympy.org http://www.sympy.org, https://github.com/sympy/sympy https://github.com/sympy/sympy. Not sure if "good", but seems reasonably popular on Github.