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From: Jon Harrop <usenet@jdh30.plus.c
To: All
Subject: Re: open-source Mathematica equ
Date:Sat, July 05, 2008 10:48 PM


Joe Strout wrote:
> As a student, I used Mathematica for years and loved it. But now, I no
> longer qualify for an educational discount, but still have occasional
> need (or desire) to do some math -- but the standard price ($2500) is
> ridiculous, absolutely out of the question for me.

I just found myself in the same boat because I have a lot of software
written in Mathematica and the price here is even bigger (£2,000 which is
over US$4,000!).

I'm just going to implement all of the functionality that I need myself on
top of OCaml and F# as these are the best languages currently available
(IMHO).

--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?u


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