> I would be really quite surprised if some enterprising 19 year old whiz-bang genius from Iceland didn't re-write it in Mathematica. Still would be a net loss

> I would be really quite surprised if some enterprising 19 year old whiz-bang genius from Iceland didn't re-write it in Mathematica. Still would be a net loss for science, as a critical piece of software infrastructure would become tied to Wolfram's proprietary black box. Also I think academic software benefits less often from a random precocious outsider fixing things, because in addition to good programming knowledge, it requires a fair amount of subject matter expertise, what is rare to be found both in the same person.