--- Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
On Thursday 10 November 2005 23:36, 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 work for Wolfram Research, so I might be biased. I've also been a Maple user since Version 5. I have version 10, now. I'd still give the edge to Mathematica. Doing things in Maple is more work ... most of the time, I can just get whatever I need straight from MathWorld, Functions, or straight from the Mathematica Guidebooks. If you'll purely be looking at integer sequences, with no graphics, and no special functions, consider Pari. Ed Pegg Jr