Thanks to MIT, I have access to both. I have a moral inclination against Mathematica, so when I start a new project, I try to do it in Maple instead. So far, the result has been the same each time: I persevere until I hit a bug in the Maple kernel, at which point I throw up my hands, file a bug report, and switch to Mathematica. So, much to my chagrin, I think Mathematica is the only reasonable advice I can offer. --Michael On 11/10/05, dasimov@earthlink.net <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
I hope to buy one of {maple, mathematica, mathlab} to run on a Macintosh I'm planning to buy in the near future.
I'd like to hear preferences and reasons from any of you who have used more than one of these.
(I've never used matlab, but find that mathematica's incessant need for typing capital letters to begin each built-in command, together with its uniformly mediocre help files -- at least compared with maple's -- cause me to lean toward maple over mathematica.
But I'd love to hear others' opinions. I'm curious about breadth of features, ease of use, and quality of graphics. (Price is relevant, too.)
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