On 4/10/07, Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> wrote:
Maple is far away from any competitor I've seen. It provides you with anything you need plus everything you want, works in a nice environment and provides you with a _very_ comprehensive help. I have yet to find any free equivalent that has these three features.
The makers are also very clever. Students can often get a licence for Maple on their own machines for "free" (it's being paid elsewhere). This kind of targets the group who would be most interested in writing a replacement. And lets face it, what Maple does is hard. I really wouldn't know where to begin. However, there are a lot of programs that implement peices: http://web.usna.navy.mil/~wdj/opensource_math.html It's just a matter of getting one of them to a point where it's useful... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/