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From: giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere)
Subject: Re: Mathematica for Amiga?
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.210602.21651@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 21:06:02 GMT
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In article <1991Apr25.170919.967@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>	I just called Waterloo Maple people. Development has
>definitely NOT halted. And it isn't problems with 2.0 either.

Well, that isn't what they told me (though I never said development had
halted completely).

>They had some problems with the person they had coding their
>front end. He made Maple require 2.0, yet they also want to be
>able to go back to 1.3. They also want to wait for 2.0 to be
>officially released before they ship a 2.0 product.

Not supporting 1.3 is the probably the biggest complaint they've been
getting, though from what I hear the user interface needs work under
2.0 as well.

>	What they have now is VERY stable under 2.0. As it was
>put to me, they are renaming what they used to call beta-testing,
>alpha-testing, and that it is now going into beta-testing.

Hmm.  A beta-tester I know says his version of Maple crashes too much.
Sounds like the stability could be improved.

Considering they're not an Amiga shop, really, I'd say Maple is doing
a pretty good job.... but there could be improvements.

-- 
Eric Giguere                                       giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA
           Unlike the cleaning lady, I have to do Windows.