Well, you are right. But I just want to note that Mathematica started gaining
market success in pre Mathematica 3.0 era when Mathematica 1/2
had no GUI but had quite good "readline" stile editing facilities.
Children may want use CAS to check their school math and they
certainly prefer GUI and book-style interface with all alphas
and betas nicely printed on screen. But I'm sure that people who
use CAS professionally for doing serious hard calculations
tend to use simple text console mode. The truth is that the
number of such professionals is rather small ;-(
Richard Fateman wrote:
> Personally I agree with you. The success of Mathematica says that
> the marketplace disagrees.
>
> Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Daniel Lemire wrote:
> >
> > Somehow, I have to disagree that the "typical person" using Maxima will
> > using a GUI. Frankly, I've tried both, and I much prefer working in
> > console. I simply open a console and type "maxima".
> >
> >
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[ Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy@mail.ru> <vvzhy@td.lpi.ac.ru> ]