Re: Maple Vs Mathematica

> There is one advantage to Maple over Mathematica (if this is important
> for you): in Maple one can list the source code for most of the system
> functions. In Mathematica the source code is not available to look at.

That isn't right. All the parts of Mathematica that you load from
packages, Graph theory, combinatorics, most of the number theory etc
you can find in plain text files at
C:\Program Files\Wolfram
Research\Mathematica\5.2\AddOns\StandardPackages\

A good fraction of the kernel functions can also be seen, though not in
a very convenient way.
Make sure the function is loaded internally by using it once. eg
LaplaceTransform[x,x,t]
Then make it viewable with
ClearAttributes[LaplaceTransform, ReadProtected]
Now read the source code with
??LaplaceTransform

I would say that between these two methods, about 60% of Mathematica
source is viewable. You wan't get very far with the high-performance
functions like Det, Inverse etc which are compiled C rather than
written in Mathematica language.

I don't think either system makes C source available.

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