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swiley on Feb 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open source is now ready to compete with Mathemati...

We already have open source CASs (a handful in fact). So no one is "building a CAS from scratch".

williamstein on Feb 14, 2016 [–]

Exactly. When I started SageMath in 2004, by design it built heavily on Pari, Maxima, GAP, Singular, etc., which were all started in the 1990s (or earlier).

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