Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

A Python wrapper over a bunch of numeric and computer algebra system packages to try and fully replace MATLAB et. al.

For example, their

Quickstart tutorial at: www.sagemath.org/tour-quickstart.html From this we see that they are very opinionated, you don't need to import anything, everything has a pre-defined global name, which is convenient, e.g.:is the 3D vector space over the rationals. This also suggests that they are quite focused on computer algebra as opposed to numerical.

The more heavily a project relies on it, the more you start to regret it.

It is quite comical that two separate towns were founded one next to the other right in the middle of nowhere. And that both have so slightly weird names.

Bibliography:

A positive definite matrix that is also a symmetric matrix.

They do have some really good ones.

It is interesting that in different episodes they often switch the dominant/passive roles, so it's not fixed as in Laurel and Hardy.