Re: A free copy of Maple or a frre maple webservre

"Dave" <foo@xxxxxxx> wrote

Vladimir Bondarenko has shown numerous bugs in Maple which don't get
fixed.

Vladimir Bondarenko is a skilled mathematician who has a keen understanding
of the internals of Maple. It is not so much that he 'discovered' the bugs
but that he _generated_ the bugs. If his objective was to solve some well
defined problem, he would simply reflect on the internal factors that
generated the observed bugs and found a 'work around'. His objective is to
contribute to the evolution of Maple. His criticism is that as Maple evolves
new bugs are created and not fix for years or never. I know the creators of
Maple. They would likely criticize Bondarenko's critique of Maple in the
following terms. They would say, "What's wrong with you? We are in the
business of constantly expanding the domain of application of Maple. Bugs
are universal and most find some kind of work around. The domain of
application of Maple is constantly expanding so it is becoming monotonically
more useful, because of our work. The bugs are just bugs to you, they are
not bugs to everyone."

Vladimir never answered the question from William Stein about whether he
had ever used Sage.

Vladimir is skilled with Maple. It would likely take him one man year to
become proficient in Sage to the point where he could generate a similar
critique of Sage. Why should he bother?


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