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Re:Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source by yummypaint on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:36PM (#19556629)
Agreed. It definitely has its uses, but it lacks the self-consistency needed to be a language. Alot of this is for understandable historical reasons, but it has never been smoothed out as it would be in a project with more community involvement. Again that's ok.

Maybe we need something to be to mathematica as octave is to matlab.

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Re:Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source by Armisael16 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:45PM (#19560355)
https://www.maplesoft.com/compare/mathematica_analysis/

That you haven't heard of it is perhaps telling.

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Re:Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source by carlob on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @04:02AM (#19561645)
Maple is not FOSS and is not a clone, Mathics is to Mathematica as octave is to Matlab.
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