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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,sci.math
Subject: Re: significance of Mathematica
Summary: Want comparative reviews of all major symbolic calculators
Keywords: MACSYMA, REDUCE, Maple, Mathematica
Message-ID: <902@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 88 16:20:46 GMT
References: <12531@oberon.USC.EDU> <9450@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Organization: Mathematical Sciences Computer Lab, Columbus, OH
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In article <9450@swan.ulowell.edu> sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock) writes:
> I, too, am curious. I use Macsyma v412.45 on a Symbolics 3600. Other than its
>color capabilities, I do not understand the brouhaha. Is there anyone out 
>there who has used both Macsyma and Mathematica and would be willing to post
>a summary of differences? Thank you.

I would like to see a comparative review of all the major symbolic calculation
programs. The closest I have seen is a rather simple listing of cababilities
of programs and the write-up is five years old. Can anybody give a reference
where such reviews may be found.

BTW, Maple on the Amiga does use color too. But it does only two dimensional
graphs and not particularly fast, especially if you have infinite ranges.