Subject: Slightly OT: student usage of Maxima vs Maple
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 16:34:31 -0400
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Thomas Widlar <twidlar at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/P573/node11.html
Thanks for pointing to this resource. It's interesting to see a new
user experiment with the different systems.
He points out some weaknesses in Maxima which we ought to address,
e.g. some of the difficulties in manipulating sums. But there are
also areas where he doesn't understand Maxima very well, for example
he declares arrays when this is unnecessary for his problem.
I haven't reviewed the doc in detail (and anyway I don't know the
other two systems), but just a word to the wise....
-s