Re: Maple bugs: Backward compatibility - 1

From: Vladimir Bondarenko (vb_at_cybertester.com)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: 24 Dec 2004 06:03:21 -0800

Madam,

By the way, let me explain my way of addressing you...

You wrote at

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.math.maple/msg/58c96ed66caef4ce

No one> what makes you think i'm a 'sir'?

from which I infer that you could be an AI application passed the
Turing Test, a representative of extraterrestrial intelligence
(read more about this item soon), or a woman. I much prefer to
consider the 3rd case as the most probable, yet stand ready for
correction.

No one> do you reply to someone in these two newsgroups,
No one> or are you just talking to yourself?

Before your eyes, a rare historic event, like Vesuvius eruption,
or the first manned space flight, - a paradigm shift is going
to dart into life, and dramatically change it once and forever.

Let me add some comments.

Actually, your message, or put it so, an attempt of reproach, is
not fully wrong. But I believe the target of your reproach maybe
should be changed.

With sheer delight, I enjoy warm, fresh and sincere comments by my
several comrades in spirit and companions in Maple misfortune! Oh
comrades, I am really thrilled and proud to hear your appraisal,
to feel your support, relish your deep understanding of the events
unfolding, Peter, Brad, Fred! This *is* inspiring, this is one of
most exiting hours of my life. (Being swamped with all Maple bug
identification, I already composed answers to you in mind, and so
will reply soon, the delay is because GEMM and I keep trying to
find more and more Maple bugs, with alarming success...)

Among these comrades are you, No one, an unknown entity. Whoever
you are, I find the brightness of your insight and the level of
your intuition to be amazing.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.math.maple/msg/58c96ed66caef4ce

No one> i get the sense there is some mysterious history or other
No one> motivation behind this guy's effort,

Why sure, right you are. A certain part of the mystery you pointed
out to is a contest between two architects. One of them is this
child ;) This is all I could afford to tell you this moment...
please have patience. Thanks.

Who is the second architect?

Watch the development of affairs ;)

No one> and i'm left wondering what it could be.

Let me recur to a comparison. A championship in chess is in full
swing. Kasparov and his opponent, with intense eagerness, are bent
their heads at the checkerboard trying to decipher each other's
designs. The winner takes all!

Now an elegant newspaperwoman is walking onto the stage, and she
is addressing Kasparov politely, Dear Grand Master, could you
please disclose publicly your ideas on account of what are your
next moves, as well as your far-reaching designs?

;-)

No one> did he ever try to contact people at Maplesoft?

In general, I keep contacting with CAS manufacturers since 1993.
According to their reactions, (a few selected of them are at

http://www.cas-testing.org/index.php?list=7

and belongs, respectively, to

COMMENT 1 Albert D. Rich, www.derive.com www.mulisp.com

COMMENT 2 Prof Dr Oleg Marichev, WRI www.functions.wolfram.com

COMMENT 3 Dr Anwar Shiekh, WRI Test Development Group Supervisor

COMMENT 4 Prof Dr Walter Oevel (SciFace GmbH)

COMMENT 5 Dr Anwar Shiekh, WRI Test Development Group Supervisor

COMMENT 6 Dr Anwar Shiekh, WRI Test Development Group Supervisor

COMMENT 7 Dr Anwar Shiekh, WRI Test Development Group Supervisor

COMMENT 8 Dr Michael Wester, www.math.unm.edu/~wester

COMMENT 9 Dr Anwar Shiekh, WRI Test Development Group Supervisor

COMMENT 10 Dr Anwar Shiekh, WRI Test Development Group Supervisor

COMMENT 11 Stefan Wehmeier, SciFace GmbH

COMMENT 12 Dr Anwar Shiekh, WRI Test Development Group Supervisor

COMMENT 13 Kelly Roach, http://home.att.net/~themission/

COMMENT 14 Dr Anwar Shiekh, WRI Test Development Group Supervisor

)

due to my efforts, many hundreds of bugs have already been fixed
in Derive, Mathematica, MuPAD, with many thousands are still in
the queue to be fixed. In contrast, up to now, Maplesoft is the
only of CAS manufacturers which since 1993, yes 1993, explicitly
rejects my efforts to improve Maple.

However, I see that there are numerous, systematic visits to the
Cyber Tester's sites from ns.maplesoft.on.ca (205.211.164.226).
Be this a coincidence or a result of such visits (I hope for the
latter), dozens of Maple bugs pointed out in the Cyber Tester's
sites have been fixed in Maple 9/Maple 9.5/Maple 9.5.1.

I hope here I answered a part of your questions... coming back
to Maple bugs to celebrate the Year of 2005 coming as effeirs,
with fireworks, popping of the corks and dance music!

Merry Christmas to you and all the readers of sci.math.symbolic
and comp.soft-sys.math.maple !

Cyber Tester guarantees you and all our supporters thrilling
nice impressions during the next 12 months ;)

Vladimir Bondarenko

GEMM architect

Cyber Tester, LLC

http://www.cybertester.com/
http://maple.bug-list.org/
http://www.CAS-testing.org/

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