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Sage / Sagecloud is quite popular in academics in the Czech Republic.

• kzrdude 11y ago
  Yes bug Sage is weird. It's a sewed together giant of multiple parts, and the seams are quite apparent. It's also hard to install and get started with.
  • partycoder 11y ago
    This is not true anymore. In Windows it might be, but on Mac and Linux it's very straightforward.
  • apricot 11y ago
    Hard to install? It's one command ("pacman -S sagemath") in Arch and three commands in Ubuntu. Hard to get started with, I can agree with. Despite there being several tutorials, it's not as easy to start using out of the box as Mathematica.
  • tamana 11y ago
    Compared to what, though?
• sdenton4 11y ago
  Sage is fantastic! I used it for math research for years; it's python, and brings together many of the best open source math projects. So yeah, there are seams, but the seams are far less bad than (say) writing your own translation layer between the various components. And Sage has a large (and always growing) base of native functionality, as well. In fact, I'm pretty confused as to why someone would go to the trouble of trying to write a new, python-based mathematica alternative with Sage already quite established and equally free. (I guess keeping the Mathematica language is a motivation for someone who's tied to the mathematica world already, but I've always found it to be a write-only language...)