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- From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: Re: MAPLE resources reccomendation
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:09:14 GMT
- In article <ETHANB.92Nov16150914@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu> Ethan
- Bradford, ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu writes:
- >In article <Bxtxzy.CJD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- (Scotty A
- >Johnson) writes:
-
- >According to my experience, Maple is somewhat more powerful in just
- >about every way. Mathematica's only advantages are in pattern
- >matching .............
- >
- ........... I don't know why Wolfram
- >decided to invent a new mathematical syntax for Mathematica; I found
- >it very inconvenient when I was a Mathematica user.
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-
- this comment indicates a basic lack of understanding of the mathematica
- programming language. there are MAJOR differences in the languages of
- mathematica and maple (and macsyma). mathematica not only has pattern
- matching (which can be very important) but it has many more built-in
- functions for functional style programming.
-
- other miscellaneous points: what about mathematica's graphics or its
- notebook front end?
-
- the basic question iswhat do you want out of your cas? if you are going
- to do serious programming, mathematica is totally in front of the
- others.
-