On 11/14/2020 11:26 AM,
clicliclic@freenet.de wrote:
Hello everybody.
In what general directions did the respective developers take Maple
and Mathematica over the past years? Just maintaining the status quo?
Adding more function names? Adding or improving algorithms? Reworking
the implementation?
Did the user bases grow or shrink? Are long-term perspectives becoming
clear?
Martin.
For number of functions, this is the only data I have. It gives
number of Functions per version for Mathematica over the years.
It might not be exact.
V 1 June 1988, 600
V 2 Jan 15, 1991 883
V 3 April 21, 1993 1200
V 4 May 19, 1999 1300
V 5 June 12, 2003 1500
V 6 May 1, 2007 2100
V 7 Nov 18, 2008 2550
V 8 Nov 15, 2010 2467
V 12.1.1 June 9, 2020 5600
It is possible to obtain this using the command
lis = WolframLanguageData[All, {"Name", "DateIntroduced"}]
I do not know how to do this for Maple. May be Maple experts know.
Maple is also organized in packages. So might be more involved
to count overall "number of functions" for each version.
Someone asked related question on Mathematica's stackexchange few
months ago. Might be of interest:
https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/221959/is-mathematica-adequately-improving
--Nasser
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