>>14410608Hmm, I thought maple is closer to mathematica than matlab.
The way you interact with maple console is very similar to mathematica.
I will compare matlab and mathematica:
mathematica is good at symbolic manipulations. you could give mathematica the taylor series of e^x, and mathematica can tell you "bro this is Exp[x]".
Matlab, or python, or C does no such thing.
imagine doing pages of derivations for a homework problem. you can make mathematica do the steps, which makes sure there is no careless mistake. and since it is a computer, each expression could be arbitrarily long, mathematica can handle it and keep the exact mathematical expressions as the final result. compared to this, matlab can only give you an actual numerical solution that is stored as an array of numbers.
on the flip side, if you want an array of numbers as the result, matlab is probably the better bet. matlab is nice because you can use it as an actual programming language that looks exactly like C or python, with immense user experience upgrades and a suite of built in functions.
(matlab has a suite that soooooort of tries to replicate this, but afaik no one really uses it)
