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- From: ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu (Ethan Bradford)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: MAPLE resources reccomendation
- Message-ID: <ETHANB.92Nov16150914@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:09:14 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ptolemy.ETHANB.92Nov16150914
- References: <Bxtxzy.CJD@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:19:08 GMT
- To: saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson)
-
- In article <Bxtxzy.CJD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson) writes:
-
- I understand that Maple is more powerful than Mathematica.
- Is this true?
-
- According to my experience, Maple is somewhat more powerful in just
- about every way. Mathematica's only advantages are in pattern
- matching and in having a seperate compute server and user interface
- (so that you can have an interface on your PC to Mathematica running
- on a mainframe, or (even if they both run on the same machine) so that
- you can type while a big computation is being done.
-
- Also, I am used to using MACSYMA from a class I had a couple years
- ago. Is Maple similar to this? I found MACSYMA to be very well
- done, and simpler to use than Mathematica.
-
- Maple syntax is very similar to Macsyma. 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.
-