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  • #31
    Agreed. My courses never used Maple, just Mathematica. Mathematica.
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    • #32
      I didn't think you got beyond the 2nd year. What would you have needed mathematica for?

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      • #33
        Dunno, MATLAB has served me well enough for my FEM programs
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        • #34
          Maple sucks. I had to use it for comp chem 2 years ago (the thread is probably still around here) and I never understood it.

          The fact that the ****ty piece of software is used for anything other than mental torture surprises me.
          You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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          • #35
            MATLAB ****ing rules.

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            • #36
              Ooooh, boy, it's worse than I thought. Maple has two distinct primitive types of list with subtly different properties, which require trivial casts in some cases for reasons that are only obvious to a CS person.

              Honestly, even though it was ostensibly designed by mathematicians, it looks like it was designed by compscis who cared more about making the language elegant than usable.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Kuciwalker View Post
                why are Canadians terrible at writing software? .
                Ask Asher.
                Probably because they have no idea how to approach the task - normal or ass way. And since most of Canadians are gays (as Asher teaches us), they do it all wrong or "through the ass way" as our common expression says.
                Not sure you'll understand my non-Canadian humor though.

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                • #38
                  Canadian software is the highest quality in the world. There are many studies showing this. This is why there's so many Canadian consulting companies writing software for major US institutions such as banks and even government. It has to do with our winters forcing us to stay inside and code.

                  Russian software is only famous for causing catastrophic failures. Remember that Concorde ripoff that crashed in a simple demonstration flight? Russians.
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                  • #39
                    Russian software is designed solely to steal people's bank account information.
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                    • #40
                      Canadian software is biggest, most powerful software in the world. Made of pure Canadian iron, not ripoff aluminum like other softwares.
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                      • #41
                        It's true.
                        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Boris Godunov View Post
                          Russian software is designed solely to steal people's bank account information.


                          "If you want My Space or American-On Line web pages," Dmitri confidently told the Wall Street executive before taking another long drag on his cigarette, “then hire New York programmer to build.” He exhaled, filling the air in the posh Moscow bar with even more smoke, then leaned in to say, “but if you need real, smart, mathematically strong system, then you hire Russian. Who you think build Google? Russian!” Dmitri’s words were mostly redundant. Even before flying to Moscow, the executive was convinced that The Russian Plan was the only way to go. As Dmitry put it, the perfect storm of a bankrupt Russian trading house, mixed with contract disputes, Kremlin intervention, and an untimely death or two, allowed him to acquire the source code and intellectual property rights to an advanced, realtime foreign exchange trading system.
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                          • #43
                            Jon, I was in honours, I don't know if the regular folks used it or not, but we used it for everyone of our labs, and all of our reports and assignments.
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