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No one seems to remember that Einstein did not solve his equations, he merely interpreted science to formulate them. That was his genius. Someone else invented the methods of solving them. The problem with computer science today is that it puts the cart before the horse. It exalts the method maker and implementer and forgets the modeler. Why has this happened? Because software technology has been all about recycling old code for the last 40 years, removing the need for specifications in the waterfall, bringing autonomy back to IT as a kind of revenge for the DIY movements of FORTRAN and BASIC which flattened the early IT empires. That's why Unix has been balkanized into hundreds of strains (including Linux and Android) and we have a Babel of redundant computer-science languages. Whereas end-user DIY development is dead, except for spreadheets. [[User:Beartham|Beartham]] ([[User talk:Beartham|talk]]) 21:22, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
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:I suspect it is the rise of interpreted math/science languages, such as Matlab, Mathematica, and later Python, that made it hard to keep something like this going. Also, the small market that it might have. As I noted earlier, I got to try it out in 1978. [[User:Gah4|Gah4]] ([[User talk:Gah4|talk]]) 20:47, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
:Note also that, for example, Mathematica allows one to do a symbolic derivative and then output the result in C or Fortran. Not quite as convenient, but good enough much of the time. My TI-92 calculator will do symbolic derivatives, too. In any case, this article is for historical use, and I believe should be kept for that use. It would be fun to run the old code, though. [[User:Gah4|Gah4]] ([[User talk:Gah4|talk]]) 20:47, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
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