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I like using Maple because

roman_pearce — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:37:33 Z

I like using Maple because it has a nice programming language. The system itself is pretty easy to use, and you can get up to speed in a couple of hours. The manual used to have a very nice introduction to the system, showing you how to write programs and plot functions and the like, however I couldn't find it in the current version of the manual. In any case, you can download the manuals here (you have to register): http://maplesoft.com/products/maple/manuals/ Unfortunately there is no trial version of Maple 10 available, but they do have some animations on the site. Mathematica has a trial version, I suggest you download it and try it out. Personally I find it a bit harder to use than Maple, with less mathematical functionality in the areas I am interested in. It really depends on what you're doing however, since Mathematica is stronger than Maple in some areas, weaker in others. I've never used Matlab, however it is the standard tool for numerical work.

Industrial strength

Mariner — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:16:31 Z

May I suggest that you discuss the choice with the faculty staff? Matlab is much used in engineering books and is very robust. That might make your choice for you. Hope this helps. J. Tarr.

Maple vs MATLAB vs Mathcad

woodwise — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:38:22 Z

I am just beginning to use Maple 10. I picked it up because I wanted to explore the power of Maple and get good documenting on the way. I am finding the learning curve for Maple more difficult than for either MATLAB 7.0.1 or Mathcad 11|12|13. I use MATLAB 7.0.1. Running under Windows, it has a very nice UI and that UI can be easily configured to be convenient (for me, that is). I now run it with 4 window panes: plots, commands, code, and misc. Student version is around $100 USD, I think. I believe that Maple is more comprehensive than Mathcad, though I can't say at this point. Mathcad is very powerful and has a very nice WYSIWYG interface, something for which it has been well known. The student version runs around $100 USD, I think. It is, IMO, the easist of the packages to use because of the display paradigm. Kindly yours, Rich

different softwares for different uses

lehalle — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:33:28 Z

Those 3 softwares are quite different: - matlab is at first dedicated to statistics and signal processing from real dataset; you can easily get data from oracle database, real-world sensors, etc. Matlab is efficient to process this kind of data. - maple is at first usefull to work on formal equations and formula. You cannot do that with Matlab (unless you have the Maple package for Matlab see this). - mathematica is between the two others: not as formaly efficient as Maple for formal calculus, but more fast than Maple to work with real datasets. I use intensively Maple and Matlab for about 15 years, but I only use Mathematica occasionnaly, so may be that my point of view abot the former is not the best you can have,

Get all of them

alec — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:22:26 Z

Why should you choose Maple? Get all of them.

User graphic

roman_pearce — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:25:42 Z

I can't help but think that this advice and your user graphic (which is hilarious by the way) are somehow related :) I use only Maple, but I can really empathize with that stick figure sometimes.