Re: Useful Dumb User Questions
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg9057] Re: [mg8988] Useful Dumb User Questions
- From: wall at bacon.ethz.ch (Ernst U. Wallenborn)
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 01:42:37 -0400
- Organization: ETH Zurich
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Mark Evans <evans at gte.net> writes: > In one day I have received several answers to my post. Three out of > four are in agreement, while Jens-Peer Kuska's reply is a shining > example of exactly the condescension I am talking about. You mean he didn't agree with you and you have a problem with that. > The comparison of Mathematica with Microsoft Windows is nearly exact. > Both products have a commanding lead in their field, both are hard to > use in many ways, and both have a lot of hidden behaviors that only the > home company knows about. Both also claim to make your life easier! And both are totally different products with totally different goals. [snip] > Version 3 is an amazing product, but keep in mind that other programs > have allowed typset input for a long time, although I won't name names > because of the way in which this newsgroup is moderated. Is it? I didn't know that. -- Ernst-Udo Wallenborn Laboratorium fuer Physikalische Chemie ETH Zuerich