&gt; These are some of the lowest-quality and most frustrating pieces of software I have ever had to put up with<p>I&#x27;m a strong advocate for migrating research code to FOSS wherever possible, but even I don&#x27;t agree with this statement. Mathematica and Matlab are pretty good at what they do (labview is a different story).<p>What &quot;vastly superior&quot; FOSS solutions do you have in mind? sympy? sage? Do you think these aren&#x27;t going to have errors in them?