Re: Maple bugs: Thomas Richard: Hurrah, Maple quality improves! - Example 4

From: Shug Boabby (Shug.Boabby_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: 4 Mar 2005 16:03:13 -0800

Vladimir, i fail to see how your trolling is proof that maple is
getting worse. if your real intent is to prove Herr Richard wrong, then
please provide us with a full list of bugs shipped with each version of
maple... normalised to the power gained in each release. i'd be very
surprised if the number of new bugs seriously outweighs new features.

every program has bugs in its release. and it sucks that proprietory
software such as maple has a very poor way of addressing bug fixes
(opposed to the open model which maxima has).

however, i do think it is great that you are creating a bug list for
maple... hopefully the valid bugs can be addressed by the authors and
people like me will benefit from your work in the future.

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