On 2012-11-26, Fereshteh Zeynivand <fzeynivand at gmail.com> wrote:
> May I have some reasons about choosing Maixma to work with in differential
> equation? I mean why do you choose Maxima to work with, for example why not
> Matlab or Maple?
Well, there are various things I like about Maxima.
* open source project -- I get to tinker with stuff; workshop atmosphere
on mailing list
* combination of symbolic and numerical capabilities
* broad scope of capabilities
* laissez-faire attitude toward expressions -- meaning is imposed by user
* general look-n-feel inherited from Lisp
And for good measure there are a few things I don't like. To some extent
I'm trying to change these.
* long-standing bugs in code which is not easily fixed or replaced
* primitive programming language (dynamic scope, interpreted, no means
of structuring large programs, missing general-purpose stuff
generally available these days, confused array types)
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier