Comparison with other CAS

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Francesco Bonazzi edited this page Mar 18, 2016 · 2 revisions

Wiki page to draft comparison with other CAS

Wolfram Mathematica

Mathematica has

mutable expression trees
reactive programming
commutative prodoct and non-commutative product, no noncommutive symbols.
one pattern matcher only, associative-commutative awareness
function definition through pattern matching (SymPy has single-dispatch _eval methods).
attribute system
very limited choice of basic types
more advanced tree access: [[ ... ]] operator.
non-eager evaluation

Shall we cite Prof. Fateman's review of Mathematica?