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Re:Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? ... by jimhefferon on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:57AM (#29119278)
> what's wrong with paying for a good product?

Here is an editorial from an American Math Society journal that expresses very well one aspect of Mathematica that lots of us find troubling: http://www.ams.org/notices/200710/tx071001279p.pdf

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Re:Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? ... by jgamman on Friday November 05, 2021 @04:55PM (#29124646)
Full disclosure: The second author started a new math- ematics software system in 2005 called SAGE
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Re:Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? ... by jimhefferon on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:30PM (#29124927)
Yes, one that is fully Free. So he walks the walk.
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