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Jens Stueckelberger
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 Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: Question for Professor Fateman |
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Many years ago, professor Fateman wrote a number of highly
critical pieces about Mathematica. Since professor Fateman>s pedigree in
the computer algebra world is most imposing, I for one would be
interested to learn whether, after all the Mathematica releases in the
intervening years, he still harbors serious misgivings about this system. |
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rjf
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:00 am Post subject: Re: Question for Professor Fateman |
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On Oct 29, 2:49 pm, Jens Stueckelberger <JStueckelber...@nowhere.org>
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[quote]Many years ago, professor Fateman wrote a number of highly
critical pieces about Mathematica. Since professor Fateman>s pedigree in
the computer algebra world is most imposing, I for one would be
interested to learn whether, after all the Mathematica releases in the
intervening years, he still harbors serious misgivings about this system.
[/quote]
Jens: I make no mystery of my email address, so you can address
any particular questions you might have to me. Unfortunately I cannot
respond
directly to you unless you tell me your address.
The review papers I>ve written on Mathematica indicate cases of
design choices that I regard as erroneous. The defense, to the
extent that there has been one, has usually
been something like "I meant to do that", in the immortal words of
Peewee Herman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXU7EVXs2A
It is up to you to decide if these design choices cause you problems
or if, in your opinion, they are
likely to cause other people problems.
The more recent review (of version 6) may provide you with more data.
http:/www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/mma6rev.pdf |
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Jens Stueckelberger
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:49 pm Post subject: Re: Question for Professor Fateman |
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:00:39 -0700, rjf wrote:
[quote]On Oct 29, 2:49 pm, Jens Stueckelberger <JStueckelber...@nowhere.org
wrote:
Many years ago, professor Fateman wrote a number of highly
critical pieces about Mathematica. Since professor Fateman>s pedigree
in the computer algebra world is most imposing, I for one would be
interested to learn whether, after all the Mathematica releases in the
intervening years, he still harbors serious misgivings about this
system.
Jens: I make no mystery of my email address, so you can address any
particular questions you might have to me. Unfortunately I cannot
respond
directly to you unless you tell me your address.
The review papers I>ve written on Mathematica indicate cases of design
choices that I regard as erroneous. The defense, to the extent that
there has been one, has usually been something like "I meant to do
that", in the immortal words of Peewee Herman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXU7EVXs2A
It is up to you to decide if these design choices cause you problems or
if, in your opinion, they are
likely to cause other people problems.
The more recent review (of version 6) may provide you with more data.
http:/www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/mma6rev.pdf
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Thanks for your reply. I was asking for a public opinion, rather
a private, email one, on the basis that many could benefit from it.
Thanks for your link. |
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