I'll give it a shot: Sage is what happens when you build a computer algebra system on a giant pile of existing open source libraries and give it a nice, consist

I'll give it a shot: Sage is what happens when you build a computer algebra system on a giant pile of existing open source libraries and give it a nice, consistent interface and a ton of starving postdocs to write cool integrations and features. If you're a programmer and you've used Mathematica or Maple and you've ever found yourself wishing that you'd have something like that except in a real programming environment, Sage is it. Sage is Python (with some syntactical extensions).