Maple (software): Difference between revisions

{{Short description|CCOMathematical computing environment}}

| name = Maple

| logo = Maple 2015 logo = .svg

| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], Maple

| genre = [[Computer algebra system]], [[Numeric computation]]

| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]] [[commercial software]]

| platform = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] (7, 8 and 10), [[macOS]], [[Linux]]

| language = [[English language|English]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], and limited support in additional languages<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.maplesoft.com/products/languages/|title=International Language Support in Maple|publisher=[[Maplesoft]]|access-date=2 June 2016}}</ref>

| website = {{URL|https://www.maplesoft.com/products/Maple/}}
}}

Maple incorporates a [[Type system#Dynamic typing|dynamically typed]] imperative-style [[programming language]] (resembling [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]]), which permits variables of lexical [[scope (programming)|scope]].<ref>[http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/reviews/software/maths/maple10_mathematica52.html Power of two] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706181735/http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/reviews/software/maths/maple10_mathematica52.html |date=2010-07-06 }} Bitwise Magazine</ref> There are also interfaces to other languages ([[C (programming language)|C]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[Fortran]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[MATLAB]], and [[Visual Basic]]), as well as to [[Microsoft Excel]].

The first concept of Maple arose from a meeting in late 1980 at the [[University of Waterloo]].<ref name="MacCallum2018">{{cite journal|last1=MacCallum|first1=Malcolm A. H.|title=Computer algebra in gravity research|journal=Living Reviews in Relativity|volume=21|issue=1|year=2018|page=6|issn=2367-3613|doi=10.1007/s41114-018-0015-6|pmid=30174551|pmc=6105178|bibcode=2018LRR....21....6M |doi-access=free}}</ref> Researchers at the university wished to purchase a computer powerful enough to run the [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp-based]] computer algebra system [[Macsyma]]. Instead, they opted to develop their own computer algebra system, named Maple, that would run on lower cost computers. Aiming for portability, they began writing Maple in programming languages from the [[BCPL]] family (initially using a subset of [[B (programming language)|B]] and [[C (programming language)|C]], and later on only C).<ref name="MacCallum2018"/> A first limited version appeared after three weeks, and fuller versions entered mainstream use beginning in 1982.<ref name="Walz1998">{{cite web|url=http://zakuski.math.utsa.edu/~gokhman/ftp/mirrors/maple/mplhist.htm|title=History of Maple|date=1998-12-15|access-date=2020-04-06}}</ref> By the end of 1983, over 50 universities had copies of Maple installed on their machines.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}

In 1984, the research group arranged with [[Watcom|Watcom Products Inc]] to license and distribute the first commercially available version, Maple 3.3.<ref name="Walz1998"/> In 1988 [[Waterloo Maple Inc.]] (Maplesoft) was founded. The company’scompany's original goal was to manage the distribution of the software, but eventually it grew to have its own R&D department, where most of Maple's development takes place today (the remainder being done at various university laboratories<ref>Two such university labs are the [https://www.scg.uwaterloo.ca/ Symbolic Computation Group] at the [[University of Waterloo]] and the [http://www.orcca.on.ca/ Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra] at the [[University of Western Ontario]]</ref>).

In 1999, with the release of Maple 6, Maple included some of the [[NAG Numerical Libraries]].<ref>[http://www.macworld.com/article/1870/2001/02/21reviewsmaple.html Maple 6.0] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618032934/http://www.macworld.com/article/1870/2001/02/21reviewsmaple.html |date=2008-06-18 }} Macworld, Feb 2001</ref> In 2003, the current "standard" interface was introduced with Maple 9. This interface is primarily written in [[Java (programming language)|Java]] (although portions, such as the rules for typesetting mathematical formulae, are written in the Maple language). The Java interface was criticized for being slow;<ref>[http://www.scientific-computing.com/scwoctnov05review.html Capturing knowledge with pure maths], Scientific Computing World.</ref> improvements have been made in later versions, although the Maple&nbsp;11 documentation<ref>[http://www.maplesoft.com/documentation_center/maple11/Install.html Maple 11 Installation Guide] Maplesoft</ref> recommends the previous ("classic") interface for users with less than 500&nbsp;MB of physical memory.

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