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Prof. Jacques Carette

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19 years, 145 days
McMaster University
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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From a Maple perspective: I first started using it in 1985 (it was Maple 4.0, but I still have a Maple 3.3 manual!). Worked as a Maple tutor in 1987. Joined the company in 1991 as the sole GUI developer and wrote the first Windows version of Maple (for Windows 3.0). Founded the Math group in 1992. Worked remotely from France (still in Math, hosted by the ALGO project) from fall 1993 to summer 1996 where I did my PhD in complex dynamics in Orsay. Soon after I returned to Ontario, I became the Manager of the Math Group, which I grew from 2 people to 12 in 2.5 years. Got "promoted" into project management (for Maple 6, the last of the releases which allowed a lot of backward incompatibilities, aka the last time that design mistakes from the past were allowed to be fixed), and then moved on to an ill-fated web project (it was 1999 after all). After that, worked on coordinating the output from the (many!) research labs Maplesoft then worked with, as well as some Maple design and coding (inert form, the box model for Maplets, some aspects of MathML, context menus, a prototype compiler, and more), as well as some of the initial work on MapleNet. In 2002, an opportunity came up for a faculty position, which I took. After many years of being confronted with Maple weaknesses, I got a number of ideas of how I would go about 'doing better' -- but these ideas required a radical change of architecture, which I could not do within Maplesoft. I have been working on producing a 'better' system ever since.

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10 Tips for writing fast Mathematica...

mathematica
December 08 2011
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Understanding ::uneval

uneval
October 07 2010
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maple.vim project

vim editor
July 16 2010
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FIFA simulation

mathematica
June 24 2010
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Maple 401

interface procedure
January 30 2007

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Modern Advanced Maple

programming advanced
October 25 2011
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Recognizing a finite constant

type finite
November 28 2014
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Is MaplePrimes awfully slow for you...

June 09 2010
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Unicode characters in GUI on linux

font linux gui unicode
June 22 2016
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Bug in keyword parameters?

February 24 2016

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fnormal

December 07 2006
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No.

June 07 2010
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Holy degradation!

June 13 2010
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History

February 12 2007
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?examples,binarytree

January 29 2007

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Cute, but

October 25 2009
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Small progress

October 22 2009
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Exactly

September 10 2009
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Indeed

September 07 2009
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Probably worse

September 01 2009