> Mathematica isn't magic and the source code for your mathematica program is perfectly readable text. Yes, but the user's program only tells Mathematica what

> Mathematica isn't magic and the source code for your mathematica program is perfectly readable text. Yes, but the user's program only tells Mathematica what to do, not how to do it. How Mathematica does it is proprietary, and this represents a serious transparency problem for academic work and publication. > Hell you could probably reproduce the necessary code just from reading the paper without ever looking at their source code. If this were true, Wolfram wouldn't be able to charge thousands of dollars per copy of Mathematica. The reason Mathematica is expensive is because of what it conceals, not what it reveals.