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Sure, some limitations could be mitigated this way. But being open source does not in itself make it a good language/platform.
by cpach 12y ago
Sure, some limitations could be mitigated this way. But being open source does not in itself make it a good language/platform.
- ics 12y agoThis is a point that many people seem to skip when discussing Mathematica. I think it would be great if they open sourced all of the code but I doubt that that alone would bring a surge of new package developers. If anything, I would expect it to bring IPython, Sage, etc. people to pick around for useful bits to reimplement in other projects.