On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> Well, MuPAD is more or less free,
Yes, but it is not GNU. Apparently it isn't even open source.
> Maple costs. The other day my boss
So it's out of question, IMHO.
> I can't compare any of them to Maxima though...
Reading http://www.sciface.com/products/demos/index.shtml, it seems that
MuPad is for practical purposes equivalent to Maxima. In fact the syntax
seems to be so similar that I wonder if it's derived from Macsyma.
The biggest difference is probably that MuPAD seems to have nice GUI. But
I think integrating GNU readline to Maxima would do the trick.
I'm not sure tough if Maxima has interval capabilities. Does Octave/Scilab
have? afaik they don't. (ie. for numeric error estimations).
But since Maxima is GNU, and is pretty decent, we/I should target
primarily for it instead of mupad (or something worse). Let's not do the
same mistake as with xforms, correct?-)
Of course generic XML/MathML import/export for both Maxima and LyX would
be the coolest thing but not necessarily the solution to the shortest path
problem. :)
