Wow, I had no idea this existed! Thanks for pointing it out!!
-drl
--- In maple-new@yahoogroups.com, "Alec Mihailovs" <Alec@...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: DRLunsford
>
> > It is essentially closed and there were instructions to come here.
> > Being good at following instructions, that's what I did! The last
> > message posted in maple8 was in Oct of 2003.
>
> As you, probably, noticed, this group is not very active, too. And
neither
> other Maple forums. Nothing comparing with old MUG exist at the moment.
>
> I can't tell what happened with other people and why. Personally, I
made the
> next evolutionary step and switched to Python and SAGE,
>
> http://www.python.org/
>
> http://www.scipy.org/
>
> http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/
>
> Beside other obvious reasons, the Python community is quite large
and very
> nice.
>
> If some things like GRTensorII and Clifford packages are not yet
ported to
> Python and SAGE, they will eventually definitely be, like everything
else:)
> And looking at the speed of the SciPy development, I'm sure that one
won't
> have to wait for that for a long time.
>
> Best wishes,
> Alec
>