I'm interested in math and CASs, but my opinions on available software are ill-formed and mostly ignorant. Does anyone else here have an interest in this topic, broadly speaking? If so, do you have any preferences for one package over another? Have you found any math software that seem to follow the worse-is-better design model?
How is gnuplot? gmp bignum library? Maxima? Sympy? Octave? Ever used any of these? I'm too much of a n00b (and I'm still trying to wrap my mind around what it means for software to suck less) to actually tell if some code does, in fact, suck less. tl;dr: Anyone know of any suckless math software out there in the tubes? Best, A.J.
