Re: Maple Vs Mathematica : How much of the source code?



<carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> The reviewer prefers the Maple GUI and front end, and found
>> the lack of a Mathematica debugger annoying.
>
> Lack of a debugger is most annoying to beginner users, but
> there are in fact 3 major builtin pieces missing in the kernel:
>
> 1) incremental debugger (or even a plain debugger)
> 2) error tracer
> 3) real-time breakpointer and "cook-timer"
>
> I wonder: is there a functional language based application that
> now includes those 3 components? The old vaxima (Lisp based)
> I used during 1982-88 had some rudiments of 1) and 3)
>

Matlab has a really cool and powerfull debugger. I wish Mathematica or
Maple will have something like Matlab debugger. May be in 20 years or
so, one can hope.

Nasser



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