Re: New to MuPad

Craig Carey wrote:

How many MuPad programmers are there?, or were there in 2005 ?.
I was guessing: about 1 to 4.


What do you mean by "there"? Inside my coffe cup there is none, and
under my desk just one. Among readers of this nsgroup you would find
quite a bunch.

But you will not, since you are interested just in gratuitous
critics, which serious people ignore. (This proves that I am
only semi-serious).  You criticize syntax, because you haven't read
the documentation.

You speculate about concepts you don't master well, as in the
discussion with C. Creutzig:

That MuPad ":=" is assigning a pointer to a code routine, it seems. 

I'm not sure what you mean by pointers.  Functions are first-level
objects in MuPAD [...]


It sounds like ":=" copies the code. 

Are you sure you understand the concept of 1st order functions?

Another passage from this discussion, which begins with *your bad
understanding of the scoping issues*:

The last line would be evaluating "F" after "F" ceased to exist. 

In MuPAD, F would not have ceased to exist, since there is no static
lifetime bound to scopes, but reference counting augmented with a
garbage collector.


Reference counting can be slower, unnecessary, and buggy in
multitasking scenarios.


Now, we all see that you enjoy useless arguing, just for the sake of
criticizing something, even if it has nothing to do with the original
problem.

Another discussion point:

replacing "::" with "." (imporove beauty) 

I'm not going to change a language that has been in use for ten years
based on this argument.  Besides, the . operator already has a clear
meaning in MuPAD.


Maybe I'll discover the MuPad meaning for "." later. 

Why not just google for the dot operator in MuPAD? You will find in 8
seconds all the information you need about the concatenation. THEN and
and ONLY then, perhaps, pose questions about the relevant syntax.

I'll skip the rest, since it proves only that you *want* to argue, even
if you have nothing to say.

I wonder why you do this? For fun? To prove that you are the Master of
MuPAD without even having read the documentation? This is hard to
understand... Well, but I understand that this is a fascinating sport.
Some people attack Maple (for personal reasons), others MuPAD.

....

I suggest that we launch a ferocious campaign agains Maxima! Seriously,
anybody there?
Why?
First, because it begins with "M". (We continue later with other
systems in the same deplorable situation, Mathematica, Magma, ...).

Then, because we all are democrats, no? We believe in Republican
Morality.

And Maxima (Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti) is a Royal Dutch Princess, wife
of the Prince Willem-Alexander, and those conservatist "noble" families
have no more place in our progressive society.


Jerzy Karczmarczuk


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