I can see that(!), (maple support),
your python program is interpreted isn't ?
Yes it is.
and even there it is hundreds of times faster ?
http://www.python.org Everybody can try (and it's free!)
I should post this note on the sci.math.symbolic, this would be
I stopped posting there a long time ago.
a good thing but i don't want to be associated with that 'bodarenko' ? crusade,
...he is right on some aspects of the many critics he posted,
My opinion is that Vladimir is a very smart guy and a very good tester. However, Maplesoft was not interested in supporting him, as well as other commercial CAS producers - that resulted in a big loss for them (and for those of us who use them) - he could help to eliminate a lot of bugs. One of the main problems with Maple, from my point of view, is that their management is not interested in bug fixing. In particular, thousands of bugs that I reported 4 or 5 years ago are still there.
it is almost too easy to beat maple on many computations,
Absolutely. That was one of the reasons why I stopped using Maple a couple of years ago. Alec