On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
I'm not sure what is the best one to start with. I was wondering if
there is anyone on this list who uses free software to do that sort of
simpler Calc stuff, and what it is that they use.

Not sure about any Haskell-based systems, but I can recommend Sage, a Python-based mathematics software system, which includes Maxima:

http://sagemath.org/

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Carlo Hamalainen
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