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Xah Lee wrote:

> Mathematica is a
> order of magnitude better because its typesetting system not only
> passively show math formulas as a pretty printing system, but the
> markup syntax is also semantically meaningful. (for example, when you
> type set x^2/x^3, it actually knows that it is x^(2/3) 

Hope this isn't so ...