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For those in search of a FOSS alternative, give Mathics a try: www.mathics.org

In the past couple of months, Mathics had made quite a lot of progress.In particular the upcoming release will run on PyPy. Obviously it still had lots of catching up to do, but being written in python (and some Mathematica) makes development easy and fast. Come join us!

Disclaimer: Mathics vice dictator here

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http://www.mathics.net/ (try on-line) gives a 502

Apparently it couldn't withstand all the traffic from HN (potentially due to all the server side python). It's up again now.

You can always download it and try it locally: http://www.mathics.org

Edit: If anyone is interested in getting involved, we are always looking for contributers. The full code is on github: https://github.com/poeschko/Mathics

wow. just looking now; that's really impressive.

Mathics is pretty impressive. Nice work!

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