Re: Maple vs Mathematica questions: symbolic & MacOS aspects only.

From: Christopher Creutzig (ccr_at_mupad.de)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:35:37 +0200

Hubert Holin <Hubert.Holin@meteo.fr> writes:

> A long time user of Maple, working under MacOS, I feel the time
> has perhaps come to change CAS. I am thus looking for information (NOT
> FLAMES, please) on whether I should now do so.

 If you want to change, you might want to have a look at MuPAD. As
you can infer from my mail address I am certainly not unbiased here
and since you did not specify what type of symbolic computation you
are trying to tackle, I can't guess whether MuPAD will be what you
are searching -- you'll have to find that out for yourself.

 A possible advantage of MuPAD over Mathematica for a Maple user is
that the language is much more similar to Maple, so there is less to
relearn.

 Note that as of this writing, MuPAD on the Macintosh is available in
version 2.5 only, so the new graphics our Windows-users enjoy are not
there yet. I would not be surprised to see 3.0 coming for Mac OS X
only -- if support for OS 9 is an issue for you, MuPAD might get some
minus points there.

> There is supposed to be a bridge between Matlab and Maple, but it
> is not working on the Mac, at least with the versions I have (Maple 5 to

 The next MuPAD version for Mac will probably include a link to
Scilab, which is claimed to be similar to Matlab. 

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