I always believed, that it was a shameless borrowing (as do "great artist") of Macsyma -- living on free as Maxima. Octave, Scilab and python driven C++ (e.g.

I always believed, that it was a shameless borrowing (as do "great artist") of Macsyma -- living on free as Maxima. Octave, Scilab and python driven C++ (e.g. Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, ATLAS) can do just as good, if not the same or better. If you know what you are doing (which would be a must, anyway). ps: Steven's book is full of spin, so I guess some of them would also make it to his website and vice-versa: this is called marketing and propaganda...