[hermanthegerman]

I used sage quite often when studying. I think many people today learn the one or the other programming language quite early, so it becomes natural to them, and an open source mathematical system like sage which extends their understanding of programming with mathematical/symbolic ideas is more powerful and way easier to adapt than those proprietory systems.

[igravious]

That's an interesting way of looking at it. I always thought that the "perfect" mathematical tool should strive for parity with math standard math notation but the way you describe it makes perfect sense from the viewpoint of leveraging existing tools.