Talk:List of open-source software for mathematics

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A lot of work for little purpose

A few people are putting a lot of work in to this page which almost surely will be either deleted or cut down considerably.

All the material describing open source and its purported advantages does not belong here, and undoubtedly has been properly covered elsewhere.
The page Mathematical software contains links to Wikipedia lists of computer algebra systems, statistical packages, etc.
There is a Category:Free mathematics software that encompasses most of the packages on this page.

So the value-added in this page would be:

Simply to enumerate which packages are open source
Perhaps add new information on each package

My suggestion is to put all that effort into updating the individual pages for the packages themselves. Then, perhaps, convert this page into a list of links.

M.boli (talk) 15:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Freemat

Freemat is missing. Shcha (talk) 10:16, 20 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Added FreeMat. GNU Octave was already there as Octave. M.boli (talk) 02:42, 21 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

GNU Octave

GNU Octave is missing. Shcha (talk) 10:19, 20 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No Table of Contents

If this is going to be a long list that has categories, descriptions, etc. it should really have a Contents. Wikispherion (talk) 21:35, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The TOC renders on the right-hand side, it seems. Maybe you can play with __TOC__ to see if that repositions the TOC? -- M.boli (talk) 00:16, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]